- Potaje

Ingredients:

Stew with garbanzos, fish and spinach.  Serves 4.  Ingredients: 2 hand fulls dry garbanzos (chick peas) per person; 4-5 large pieces cod fish; 3-4 garlic cloves; ½ onion, chopped; 4-5 pepper corns; 1 Tb. cumin seed; ½- 1 cup fresh spinach per person, cooked.

Preparation:

Soak garbanzos and fish in cold water over night, in a pot filled ¾ full with water.  When ready to cook, drain the soaking water, and separate out the fish.  Boil a fresh pot of water with the garbanzos- garbanzos will need to cook about 5 hours on low heat to soften.  Boil the spinach separately and drain.  Fry the cod fish briefly in olive oil, remove from oil and add to garbanzos to cook and add flavor.  Use same oil to fry garlic and onion.  Turn off heat and add spinach to garlic and onion.  Crush peppercorns and cumin with mortar and pestle.  Add to fish and garbanzos while cooking.  Shortly before stew is ready add the vegetables, so they won’t come apart.  Serve hot with French bread and salad.