Fanesca (Ecuadorean Lenten Chowder)

Name: Fanesca (Ecuadorean Lenten Chowder)
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 16
Cuisine: South American, Latin American
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp achiote (annatto) seeds; 283 grams package frozen baby peas; 454 grams calabaza or butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces; 591 milliliters canned beans, rinsed and drained; 454 grams carrots, cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 4 ears corn, shucked; 283 grams package frozen baby lima beans; 4 larges garlic cloves, minced; 227 grams snow peas or green beans, cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 454 grams green cabbage, coarsely chopped; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 1 slice Accompaniments: quartered hard-boiled eggs and avocado; 118 milliliters drained canned hominy; 59 milliliters lentils; 1 (4-inch) piece canned heart of palm, sliced 1/4 inch thick; 567 grams queso blanco or French feta, cut into 3/4-inch cubes; 454 grams skinless boneless salt cod; 4 scallions, finely chopped; 2 Tbsps unsalted butter; 59 milliliters vegetable oil; 2 liters water; 1 liters whole milk, heated; 454 grams zucchini, cut into 1/2-inch pieces

Fanesca (Ecuadorean Lenten Chowder) is a gluten free and pescatarian main course. This recipe serves 16. One portion of this dish contains around 32g of protein, 16g of fat, and a total of 408 calories. This recipe covers 33% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of ears corn, lentils, butternut squash, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. To use up the vegetable oil you could follow this main course with the Blueberry Coffee Cake #SundaySupper as a dessert. It is a rather inexpensive recipe for fans of South American food. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour.

Instructions

Rinse cod well, then soak in water to cover in a large bowl, changing water 3 or 4 times, 12 hours total. If cod is still too salty, repeat process.

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Water

Cod

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Bowl

Drain cod.

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Cod

While cod is soaking, cook achiote seeds in oil in a small saucepan over moderate heat until oil begins to bubble. Cool seeds in oil, then pour through a sieve, discarding seeds.

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Annatto Seeds

Seeds

Cod

Cooking Oil

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Sauce Pan

Sieve

Heat achiote oil in an 8-quart heavy pot over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then saut garlic, stirring, 30 seconds.

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Annatto

Garlic

Cooking Oil

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Pot

Add scallions and cumin, then saut, stirring occasionally, 2 minutes.

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Green Onions

Cumin

Add water and bring to a boil. Stir in two thirds of cheese until incorporated.

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Cheese

Water

Stir in lentils and carrots and simmer until lentils are tender, about 20 minutes. Meanwhile, cut 2 ears corn crosswise into 1-inch-thick slices, and cut corn kernels from remaining 2 ears, discarding the 2 cobs.

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Corn Kernels

Corn On The Cob

Carrot

Lentils

Stir all corn into soup with snow peas, zucchini, calabaza, cabbage, limas, baby peas, hot milk, and butter and simmer 10 minutes. Stir in mixed beans, hominy, and heart of palm and simmer 5 minutes.

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Petite Peas

Snow Peas

Zucchini

Cabbage

Butter

Hominy

Beans

Corn

Milk

Soup

Add cod, in 1 piece, and cook 2 minutes.

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Cod

To serve, remove cod from chowder and stir in remaining cheese.

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Chowder

Cheese

Cod

Cut cod into 2-inch pieces. Ladle chowder into bowls and top each serving with a piece of fish.

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Chowder

Fish

Cod

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Ladle

Cooks' notes:The combination of beans Maricel Presilla suggested and we liked was chickpeas, small white beans, cranberry or small kidney beans, and canary or pinto beans. We kept this chowder warm for a half hour one day, and the fish flaked apart in the soup before we could take it out in a whole piece. We loved the fanesca this way, too.

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Beans

Pinto Beans