Catalan Ratatouille - Samfaina
Catalan Ratatouille - Samfaina

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Catalan Samfaina: Our Own Delicious Version of Rataouille Catalan Samfaina is an exuberant vegetable mixture widely used in Catalan cuisine as a sauce or base for meat, fish and fowl dishes. At the same time, it's a succulent vegetarian dish that more and more people eat as a first vegetarian course or as a side dish. Catalan Ratatouille - Samfaina Lene Thomsen Barcelona. This Catalan dish is akin to ratatouille, the French dish that rummages around in the summer garden to combine eggplant, zucchini, bell peppers, tomatoes and onions in a pot that simmers over low.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have catalan ratatouille - samfaina using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Catalan Ratatouille - Samfaina:
  1. Get 2 onion
  2. Take 2 clovers garlic of
  3. Make ready 2 red peppers
  4. Take 2 Aubergine
  5. Get 3 - 4 tomatoes
  6. Take paprika
  7. Make ready salt
  8. Get sugar
  9. Take olive oil , mild
  10. Make ready pepper squash tomatoes This is the basic samfaina recipe. I use a variation here with green and and more .
  11. Prepare pepper squash tomatoes Variations: add some green and/or , or add more if you want

Great recipe for Rabbit with Catalan Ratatouille - Conill amb Samfaina. Variation: Use chicken instead of rabbit, or a mix of rabbit and chicken. You can make the samfaina in advance, or make all at the same time. Samfaina or Xamfaina is a fundamental Catalan sauce consisting of about everything you can think of: peppers, eggplant, zucchini, garlic, onions, olives, and olive oil.

Steps to make Catalan Ratatouille - Samfaina:
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  2. Wash and prepare all the vegetables. Grate the tomatoes, cut the rest of the vegetables in squares, about ¾ inch / 2 cm. and cut the garlic in medium slices. I like some texture in my samfaina. If you want less texture, cut the vegetables in smaller squares.
  3. In a cassola or skillet, heat a generous amount of oil.
  4. When the oil is hot, add the onion and garlic and let it take some color.
  5. Add the peppers and let it cook for around 10 min. Stir occasionally so it does not burn.
  6. Add aubergine and squash and cook until the aubergine has taken color and feels semisoft.
  7. Add grated tomatoes, a little sugar to neutralize the acid from the tomatoes, a little paprika and salt.
  8. Turn the heat on low and let it simmer under a lit for about 20 min. Stir occasionally and don't let it run out of liquid. Add a little water if necessary.
  9. The time given for cooking is the minimum time, the longer you cook the samfaina, the better it gets, just like it is the case with sofregit.

You can make the samfaina in advance, or make all at the same time. Samfaina or Xamfaina is a fundamental Catalan sauce consisting of about everything you can think of: peppers, eggplant, zucchini, garlic, onions, olives, and olive oil. Similar to the Spanish pisto or the French ratatouille, ingredients vary widely and have many interpretations. Even the Catalan language stems in part from the medieval langue d'oc, echoes of which are still heard today in modern Provençal. Samfaina is a dish that truly embodies the simplicity of Mediterranean cooking; a preparation remarkably similar to the famous, humble ratatouille of Provence.

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