🇪🇸 How to Make Fabada Asturiana

Craving Fabada Asturiana? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Fabada Asturiana at home, in about 2 hrs, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 400g dried fabes or butter beans, soaked overnight
• 200g smoked pork shoulder
• 1 cooking chorizo
• 1 morcilla (blood sausage), or skip it
• 1 onion, halved
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp paprika
• a pinch of saffron

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Drain the soaked beans, put them in a pot with the meats, onion and garlic, and cover with cold water by 3cm.
2. Bring to the boil, skim the foam off carefully, then drop to the barest simmer.
3. Cook 90 min–2 hrs. Never stir with a spoon — shake the whole pot instead, or the beans break up.
4. Twice during cooking, add a splash of cold water to shock it. Spaniards insist this keeps the beans whole.
5. Add the paprika and saffron in the last 20 min.
6. Rest it off the heat 15 min before eating. It thickens as it sits.