November Meal of the Month : Winner

72wilma · Dec 6, 2011

And the winner is ...

Cataplana (sort of Portuguese Stew)

This lot makes enough for about 6, so I freeze it in batches

1 large butternut squash, peeled diced, or 200g belly pork, cut into chunks

6 sausages (veg, etc) or 200g chorizo (leave the paprika out)
3 tsp Spanish smoked paprika

8 medium tomatoes
150ml passata
tbsp olive oil
250g onions, chopped
4 cloves of garlic, chopped
2 red peppers, chopped
2 red chillies, chopped and de-seeded
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutneg
1/4 tsp al;spice
1.25 l veg stock
salt and pepper
2 bay leaves
some thyme
1 small bunch coriander, chopped

if you want to be authentic add raw pawns at the end or clams

Preheat the oven to 230[sup]o[/sup]. Put the butternut squash and sausages (or the pork belly and chorizo) into one roasting tin and the tomatoes in another tin and roast for about 40 mins (20 for the porkies), until they are browned. Remove the butternut squash and sausage mixture (or the porkies) from the tin with all the juices and reserve.

Take the toms and add them to the passata and blend together.

Heat the olive oil in a large pan and slowly cook the onions,garlic,cumin, cinnamon, paprika nutmeg, allspice and the tomato mixture, add the butternut squash and sausages (or the porkies) , stir until everything is well mixed.

Add the stock and slowly bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer and add thymes and bay leaves, cook for as long as it takes to pack the rest of the stuff you forgot to pack the first time round!

We've never added the seafood but it's supposed to go in at the end with a handful of chopped coriander, (we put it in a bag ready for when we're eating)

This is a winter camping fav, pop it in a big flask and it take it for the first nights tea, crusty bread, red wine mmmm

bit embarrassed, truth be told :

can't give myself karma for the win, could someone else do it?

this will be Friday night's tea at the Tatton Park camp out, looks like we might need it, it's going to be a cold one!
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Terrordales · Dec 6, 2011

Well done, it was a difficult choice this month.
K+ awarded ^-^

72wilma · Dec 6, 2011

ta Don, we'll have a spoonful for you this Friday and a wee toast, some loverly 10yr Bushmills sitting in Wilma, waiting to be defiled >

LMPD · Dec 6, 2011

Can you have a spoonful for me..............before you put the sausages in? ;D

72wilma · Dec 6, 2011

okey dokey, but may make it with veg sausages, smoked paprika and huge dollop of rose harissa to combat the vile weather due on Friday ;D

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