Migas Manchegas
Hello my friends!!
In my first post I'm going to show you how to cook a typical Spanish food, far away from the well known "Paella".
I recently met a very good friend called Ivo, from Netherland, and he want to learn how to cook it.
We cooked for him the most important dishes we eat, I mean, the food our parent, my grandparent, ....
A bit of History
This is an old, old recipe that was used by the shepherds long long time ago. At this time, they only had access to the bread once a week, or two weeks, then when the bread was hard, they used to get the most of the resources, and never never throw food.The Result
This is the result of "Migas Manchegas":
Well, let's go with the recipe.
Ingredients for 4 people:
- 6 or 7 Garlic branches
- Eggs
- Hard Bread
- Paprika, Salt
- Green and red pepper
- Oil: Best is olive oil from Spain
- Meat: Chorizo, Bacon
Steps:
1.- First step is cutting the bread in crumbs. The size of each one have to be a bit bigger than a cheakpea. You can use a knife. This is the result:
2.- Put oil and the garlic in the pan, fry them until they became brown:
3.- Take off the garlic and fry the pepper until became soft. Use the oil of the previous step.
4.- Now Its time to fry the meet. Use the oil of the previous step.
5.- You can see we fried peper and the meet, not it's time to join the garlic and put the hard bread:
6.- Stir everything until the bread absorb all the oil. This is an important step, be patient in this process.
7.- Spread with salt and paprika.
8.- Blend, blend more...... almost finishing
If your cooking is similar to this, It's OK. Add 2 Bay leaves
9.- And the final step.... Fry an Egg
And this is the result:
Eat with wine or beer..
