Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, espinacas con garbanzos (chickpeas and spinach tapas) 🌱. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Espinacas con garbanzos are a traditional tapa in Seville, especially popular during the chilly winter months and during lent. But the dish's history goes far beyond Andalusia. Spinach comes from Ancient Persia (modern Iran), where Arab traders got their hands on it and eventually introduced it to the Mediterranean.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have espinacas con garbanzos (chickpeas and spinach tapas) 🌱 using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Espinacas con Garbanzos (chickpeas and spinach tapas) 🌱:
- Take 3 handfuls spinach (roughly chopped)
- Make ready 1 cup chickpeas (cooked or from a jar or tin)
- Take 2 large tomatoes (grated)
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic (sliced)
- Make ready 1 small onion
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
- Get 1/4 teaspoon sweet paprica
- Take Pinch seasalt
- Prepare Pinch white pepper
- Get Pinch cumin
- Prepare 1 bay leaf
- Take Swig of olive oil
- Take Wedge of lemon
Top it off with a generous drizzle of some good olive oil. It's going to be love at first bite with this Espinacas con garbanzos. A tapa of espinacas con garbanzos tells you everything you need to know about Seville. This is one of the most typical dishes in the sunny Andalusian capital, loved and devoured by locals.
Instructions to make Espinacas con Garbanzos (chickpeas and spinach tapas) 🌱:
- Heat a splash of oil in a pan to a medium heat. Gently cook the onion starting to brown. Add the garlic and cook until translucent. I prefer not to get to much colour on the onion and garlic for this dish. Add the cumin seeds.
- Add the grated tomatoes and the paprika. Add the chickpeas until piping hot.
- Add your washed spinach to the pan and cook until wilted. Cook to your preference but I prefer not to overcook. Remove from heat, drizzle with a touch of olive oil, season with salt, white pepper and a squeeze of lemon.
It's a surprisingly simple recipe; mostly spinach and chickpeas (garbanzo beans) spiced with cumin. But despite its simplicity, this tapa tastes way better than the sum of its parts. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over medium-low heat. Stir in the spinach, chickpeas, cumin and salt. Spanish Tapas Cafe Bar & Restaurant by Omar Allibhoy.
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