A Bread and Vegetable Hotpot

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

Sopa Mallorquina

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<

Europe
Spain
Stew
Mediterranean
Vegan
Winter
Spicy

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