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Chickpeas, Spinachs and Blood Catalan Sausage


This is one of those dishes that takes you 10 minutes to prepare if you use canned chickpeas and bagged spinachs; but if you want to boil your own chickpeas and clean the spinachs leaves... it takes much more!

So, this is up to you. Are you in a hurry? Try this dish! Do you have the whole afternoon for you? Then do it the old, slow way and try the dish too ;D.




I didn't use canned chickpeas but I didn't boil them myself either... I'm a little tricky here... I bought them boiled at the Sagrada Familia Market; there's a shop there with huge pots and casseroles where they sell all kind of legumes boiled early in the morning and ready to be used. Even if I tried to cook them myself for a million years, my chickpeas wouldn't be as good as theirs. So, I buy 3 or 4 little bags per month, I freeze them and they taste better than canned when defrosting them.


For those of you following Lent rules just discard the blood sausage, or wait until Lent is over. For those of you looking for a supersavory dish, try it and tell me about it ;D.

Ingredients for 4 servings: 400 grs of clean spinach, 300 grs of boiled chickpeas, 2 garlic cloves, 20 slices of blood sausage, 50 grs of pinenuts, extra virgin olive oil and salt.
  • Peel the blood sausage (butifarra negra) and cut in slices. In a big sauce pan heat some (2 tablespoons) of extra virgin olive oil and golden up the sausage. Reserve.
  • In the same sauce pan add the garlic peeled and cut in slices, when fragant reserve aside and toast the pinenuts, when golden, add the spinach and stir for 2 or 3 minutes. If you think you need a bit more of olive oil, then add some more.
  • Add the boiled chickpeas, stir. Add some salt and the sausage, taste, stir some more and serve hot with some extra virgin olive oil on top.
Eat well :D.

I'm sending my dish to Ruchikacooks who is hosting this month's My Legume Love Affair; Susan's brainchild Event. If you want to participate too, just take a look at Ruchika's blog or go to Susan's MLLA past, present and future to get all details.

Legumes are so important in our diets!
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