GARBANZO STEW WITH MALANGA AND CALABAZA
If you're looking for an alternative to frigid carrots and exhausted potatoes during the winter, tropical root vegetables like malanga make a great base for comforting soups and stews as you wait out the seemingly never-ending cold. This rough brown vegetable, a staple of Cuban cooking, is often mistaken for taro root. Ranging from creamy white or yellow to purple when cut open, malanga can be fried, boiled, or mashed into a puree. In this garbanzo stew, it absorbs the flavor of the pepper, onion, and tomato sofrito, becoming pillowy and creamy without breaking apart while the chickpeas simmer and the calabaza melts into the broth.
Provided by Food Network
Categories main-dish
Time 11h40m
Yield 6 to 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Soak chickpeas in water with a pinch of baking soda overnight, 10 to 12 hours. Drain and rinse well.
- In a large heavy pot, combine chickpeas with 7 cups of water. Bring to a boil then lower heat to medium, cover, and simmer until just tender, 30 to 35 minutes. Drain and reserve 4 cups of the cooking water.
- To make the sofrito, heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the cubed ham and saute until lightly browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the onions, peppers and garlic and saute until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes, wine, paprika and bay leaf to the sofrito, roughly crushing the tomatoes. Return to a simmer and cook an additional 5 minutes.
- Return chickpeas to large pot with 4 cups of the reserved cooking water. Add the sofrito mixture to the chickpeas and bring to a simmer. Add the malanga and calabaza, and cook covered until the vegetables are tender, 35 to 45 minutes. Serve on its own with bread or over rice.
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