Garbanzo Linguisa Spinach Stew Recipes

ESPINACAS CON GARBANZOS (SPINACH WITH GARBANZO BEANS)

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium-low heat. Cook the garlic and onion in the oil until translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in the spinach, garbanzo beans, cumin, and salt. Use your stirring spoon to lightly mash the beans as the mixture cooks. Allow to cook until thoroughly heated.

GARBANZO LINGUISA SPINACH STEW

Steps:

• Chop onions. Sauté in large pot over low heat in olive oil for 15 minutes.
• Add minced garlic. Saute 3 minutes.
• Add sliced sausage to pot, stir, sauté for a minute or two.
• Stir in tomatoes and spinach, stir.
• Add drained beans. If mixture looks a little dry, add some of the reserved bean water.
• Lid pot and simmer over low heat, 15-20 minutes, stirring often.
• When beans are somewhat soft, add fresh cracked pepper to taste, stir and serve with a Spanish red.

LAMB STEW WITH SPINACH AND GARBANZO BEANS

Steps:

• Sprinkle lamb with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Heat oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add lamb and sauté until brown, about 10 minutes. Add onion and carrots and sauté until beginning to brown, about 5 minutes. Add garbanzo beans, broth, tomato sauce, and lemon juice and bring to simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover pot and simmer gently until lamb is tender, about 1 hour.
• Add spinach to stew. Cover and cook until spinach wilts, stirring often, about 8 minutes. Season stew with salt and pepper. Serve with lemon wedges.

PORTUGUESE SPINACH & CHICKPEA SOUP (SOPA DE GRAO)

Steps:

• Stir fry the garlic and onions in 3 tablespoons of oil in a large, heavy saucepan until translucent.
• Add the potatoes and stir fry another 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add the herbs and allow them to meloow over low heat for about 12 minutes.
• Add the broth, raise the heat and bring the soup to a gentle simmer, add the chickpeas, cover and cook slowly for about one hour or until everything is soft.
• If you like your soup to have texture, ladle out a cup or so of chick peas; if you prefer it mostly smooth, don't.
• Using an immersion blender, puree the soup until it is as smooth as you like.
• Add in the spinach, the reserved chickpeas(if you reserved them) and simmer twenty to thirty minutes--until the flavors are blended.
• Now stir in lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste and serve, hot, with crusty bread.

MOROCCAN SQUASH, CHICKPEA, AND SPINACH STEW

Steps:

• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat; stir in onion. Cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Add ginger, paprika, cinnamon, turmeric, pepper, and red pepper flakes. Cook, stirring well to ensure the spices don't stick and burn, for 2 minutes.
• Add butternut squash, chickpeas, tomatoes, vegetable stock, raisins, and honey. Simmer until squash starts to break down, about 20 minutes.
• While the soup is cooking, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spread flaked almonds onto a baking sheet.
• Toast nuts in the preheated oven, shaking the pan frequently, until they start to turn golden brown and become fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Stir spinach and cilantro into the soup; cook until spinach is wilted, about 2 minutes. Ladle into bowls and garnish with toasted almonds.