Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, marmitako. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
In Spain's Basque Country, marmitako means roughly "from the pot." This rustic, filling soup, now common in Basque homes and sociedades, began as a meal local tuna fishermen would make. Drain well, scrape off the flesh and discard skins. Marmitako, a classic recipe from the Basque country, layers onions, potatoes, tomatoes, and salmon into a juicy one-pot meal. Marmitako is a typical Basque dish that is one of our favorites.
Marmitako is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Marmitako is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have marmitako using 24 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Marmitako:
- Make ready Stock
- Get Bones and head of a small hake (any fish is fine)
- Get 1 onion
- Make ready 1 carrot
- Make ready 250 gr. prawn heads
- Prepare 1 litre water
- Get Pinch salt
- Prepare Marmitako
- Take 2 tuna steaks cut in to cubes
- Take 250 gr prawns
- Prepare 1 chile
- Get 1 small lemon
- Prepare 1 onion
- Make ready 1 largish potato
- Get 1 ripe tomato
- Prepare 1 green pepper
- Make ready 1 clove garlic
- Prepare 1 handful chickpeas (optional)
- Get 1 red chilli
- Prepare 1 tsp sweet paprika
- Prepare A few strands saffron
- Make ready 1 small glass white wine
- Take 1 bunch fresh parsley
- Get to taste Salt and pepper
Marmitako is a tuna fish stew with potatoes that is not too difficult to make but is extremely tasty and filling. The name Marmitako comes from the Basque word 'marmita' which means 'pot' or 'casserole' in the. Every time I see marmitako on a restaurant's daily lunch menu I have to order it. This Basque tuna stew is bursting with the flavor of fresh vegetables, smokey paprika, and fresh tuna.
Steps to make Marmitako:
- Make the stock by putting all the ingredients in a large covered pan and bring the a boil
- While the stock is heating up, take the heads off the prawns and add them to the pan. Once the stock starts boiling, put the heat down to low and leave to simmer for an hour and a half.
- Peel and devein the prawns and put them in a dish with the sliced chile and the juice of half the lemon. Cover with cling film and put in the fridge. Now you can go off and do something else for until the stock is ready. When it is, take the pan off the heat and prepare the the rest of the ingredients. Peel the potato, grate the tomato and chop the onion, pepper and garlic into small pieces.
- Heat some oil in a pan. Add the tuna pieces and seal them - this will only take a couple of minutes. Put the pieces on a plate and set aside.
- In the same pan, add a little more oil and the onion, garlic and green pepper. Cook over a moderate to low heat for about 10 minutes, stirring with a spatula or wooden spoon now and again. Add the tomate and stir well.
- Cut the potato into small pieces and add to the pan. Add the saffron and paprika and stir
- Add the wine. Turn up the heat and let the wine bubble away for a few minutes
- Add the fish stock (enough to cover all the ingredients) and chickpeas. Add the juice of the other half of the lemon, stir well, cover, turn the heat down, cover and leave to simmer for 15 minutes.
- Take the prawns out of the fridge. Add the tuna and prawns to the pan and stir again. Cover and leave over a moderate heat for 5 minutes
- Transfer the liquid to another pan, put over a high heat and boil for a few minutes to thicken the soup.
- Return the soup to the pan. Chop the parsley and add. Give one last stir, serve in warm bowls. And enjoy ☺️ with a glass of red wine 🍷🍷
Every time I see marmitako on a restaurant's daily lunch menu I have to order it. This Basque tuna stew is bursting with the flavor of fresh vegetables, smokey paprika, and fresh tuna. It's a dish that everyone loves — even friends who "don't like fish" are swayed by good marmitako. Easy Marmitako Recipe This Marmitako is really quite simple to make and you don´t need any special equipment, I used a a standard stock pot, and most importantly, fresh ingredients. With a recipe this simple, it is always important to use the freshest and highest of quality ingredients, it truly does make a difference in the overall flavor.
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