Sunday, Dec. 13th: Cooking Webcast

Come and hang out in the Portuguese kitchen this Sunday, Dec. 13th at 18:00 Berlin time for cooking with Blixa.  Recipe (can be vegetarian or vegan) is below if you would like to cook along!  Bring your own wine or beverage of choice.

Webcast will take place at the LIVE page.

Recipe:

Açorda de Alho e Grao de Bico
(Bread Soup with Garlic and Chickpeas)

60ml            olive oil
1 Tbsp        butter (replace with more olive oil if vegan)
1                  head of garlic
40g             cilantro
tomato, a stalk of celery, carrot, scallion, all cut

or whatever you have at hand to make a “sofrito”

3g                paprika
1                  bay leaf
1l                 water or stock as you like, I’ll use vegetable stock
250g           day old bread, crusts removed, torn to pieces
1 can          chickpeas
1tsp             salt
1/4tsp          white pepper
100ml          cream (optional)

Heat the olive oil and butter large pot. Add the garlic and the vegetables, half of the cilantro, paprika and bay leaf. Cover and let this sweat for 5 minutes.

As the garlic becomes fragrant but not burning, pour water or stock in the pot. cover and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, then lower the heat and simmer for about 20 minutes. remove the pot from the heat. Add the bread.

Remove the bay leaf. Blend with a stick blender or however you like.

Season to your taste.

Add the chickpeas. Warm.

Temper the cream with some of the warm stock so that it doesn’t curdle, then whisk into the soup. add the remaining cilantro. Serve.