Asturian Pork and Bean Stew

This simple and hearty one-pot stew is often considered the pinnacle of Spanish bean cuisine. You will certainly require a good appetite and some time to recover. It is, as the locals would put it, “un plato fuerte”, a hefty dish. Maybe it’s just a question of training, I have seen Asturians demolish a vast plate of fabada and then tuck eagerly into a main course and dessert too.

The true fabada is made with buttery, melt-in-the-mouth beans, the local fabes d