Potaje Canario de Verduras (Canarian Vegetable Stew)
Potaje (pronounced po-TAH-hay) is a delicious multi vegetable stew very typical of the Canary Islands. Here, rather than have all the food served at once, meals are served in courses. Generally a first course, which can be either a soup, stew, salad, or pasta and is then followed by the main course and of course following that, dessert and coffee. Many restaurants in Spain offer a lunch “menu,” where you can choose a first and second course from the day’s specials, and it comes with a beverage and dessert. I’m pretty sure that the variety of potajes are as varied as the chefs that prepare them. There are lentil potajes, watercress potajes (look for this one soon), corn potaje…the limit is your own creativity, much like soups and stews everywhere else in the world. Let me share with you my mil’s recipe for Potaje Canario….
Recipe is here: http://canarygirl.com/?p=152
Wine selection for this one...I'd go with a crisp Chardonnay (in fact, I did. lol)
