Best Spanish Potage Potaje Gallego Recipes

GALICIAN SOUP (POTE GALLEGO)

Steps:

• Rinse beans and discard any damaged or odd looking beans. Put in large pot with 1 tablespoon of salt and cover by 4 inches. Leave to soak overnight or at least 8 hours.
• In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, add salt pork, beef shank,marrow bone, chorizo and ham hock. Cover all with cold water by three inches and bring to a boil over high heat. Skim any gray foam that comes to the surface with a spoon. Add drained and rinsed beans, onion and peppercorns, and bring back to a boil. Cover and turn heat down to low or medium/low - pot should be at a strong simmer for two hours.
• Prepare cabbage by stripping the outer, dark green leaves. Remove core of leaves, chop roughly and set aside. Quarter the light green inner cabbage and remove core. Halve each piece again and chop into chunks.
• Over the two hours, check pot every 30 minutes or so and spoon off any gray 'scum' that bubbles at the top - this is from the meat. When the broth is thickening and the beans are almost tender, add the morcilla, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, potatoes and chopped dark green outer cabbage leaves. Bring back to the boil, then cover and lower heat to a simmer again for about 20 minutes.
• Taste for salt again and add the rest of the cabbage. Cover and cook until cabbage is very tender, at least 40 minutes. Test for salt and adjust.
• To serve, remove meats and chop (except chorizo and morcilla). Remove bones and fat and put meats back into soup. Slice chorizo and morcilla and add to the bottom of each bowl before serving, Top with soup and serve.

POTAJE DE GARBANZOS (CHICKPEA STEW - SPAIN)

Steps:

• Soak the chickpeas overnight in a large pot of cold water to cover; drain.
• In the large pot combine chickpeas, 4 cups water, garlic, bay leaves, slab bacon, and bone; bring to a boil, cover and simmer about 1 1/2 hours.
• Meanwhile, in a medium skillet, heat the oil and saute the bread slices until golden on both sides.
• Remove and reserve the bread.
• Add the ham and onion to the skillet; saute until the onion has wilted.
• Stir in the paprika, and remove the pan from the heat.
• Add the onion mixture to the chickpeas.
• Add the greens, potatoes, and salt to taste to the chickpeas and continue cooking 30 minutes or more, or until the chickpeas and potatoes are tender.
• Remove the ham or beef bone.
• In a mortar or food processor, combine the sauteed bread, almonds, 2 Tablespoons of the chickpeas from the pot, and the yolks of the hard-boiled eggs; mash to a paste.
• Stir the paste into the stew, cover and let sit 10 minutes before serving.
• Chop the hard-boiled egg whites.
• Divide into soup bowls and garnish with chopped hard-boiled egg whites.

SPANISH POTAGE (POTAJE GALLEGO)

Steps:

• 1. Sort clean (remove small pieces of grit and dirt) wash and sort your dried beans. Put your rinsed navy beans into a deep large heavy pot cover with at least 3 quarts water. Add salt pork, ham hocks, stew beef pieces, unto, and ham chunks. Also add onion, and garlic. Do not add any salt. Cook beans on low for a total of 3 hours.
• 2. While beens are cooking peel and quarter potatoes. Put potatoes in water and set aside. This is so they wont turn color. Clean collard greens and cut into small pieces. After three hours of cooking the beans add your potatoes and collards, and spanish or cajun sausage cover and continue to cook for two hours. At this time test potage and see if you need a little more salt. Remove small piece of Unto if you were able to get it. Potage is done when meats, and potaotes are fork tender. Serve in deep bowls with crusty warm bread. You will be in heaven... Enjoy