Name: A Bread and Vegetable Hotpot (Sopa Mallorquina)
Yield: Serves 8 or more
Cuisine: Spain
Ingredients: 100g (4oz) peas or cooked haricot beans; A handful of chopped fresh parsley; 3 red peppers, cored, seeded and chopped; 2-3 dried red chilli peppers; Salt; 3 green peppers, cored, seeded and chopped; 1 small cauliflower, broken into florets; 6 leeks, trimmed and sliced; 1 bulb of garlic — crush the cloves but do not peel them; Freshly ground black pepper; 5-6 medium potatoes, peeled and sliced; 4 large, very ripe tomatoes, chopped; 1 loaf of nutty brown bread –; 6 spring onions, trimmed and chopped; 2 bay leaves; 300ml (½ pint) olive oil; 2 hearts of white cabbage, chopped; 2 large onions, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
8 or more

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd on Spain

By Keith Floyd

Published 1992

About

For those of you whose Spanish is as bad as mine, at first glance you might think that this is a soup recipe. Absolutely not so. It is a sturdy vegetable stew much beloved of the Majorcan people. Even though it has no meat its happy mix of vegetable flavours and bread will appeal to the heartiest of trenchermen on a cold winter’s day.

Ingredients

2 large onions, chopped
300ml (½ pint) olive oil
6<

Method

First, fry the onions in about 3 tablespoons of the oil, which you have heated up in a frying pan. When they are golden and soft, transfer them to an extremely large lidded saucepan. Work your way down the list of ingredients, adding them in the same order to the pot, until you get to the salt and p