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Pisto Manchego (La Mancha Stewed Summer Vegetables)

Pisto Manchego (La Mancha Stewed Summer Vegetables) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Medium Heart healthy High fiber Vegetarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion
  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 1 green bell pepper
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 2 zucchini
  • 1 eggplant
  • 4 ripe tomatoes
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 pinch sugar
  • 1 tsp salt

How to cook it

  1. Heat the olive oil in a wide pan and cook the chopped onion and garlic over medium heat until soft, about 6 minutes.
  2. Add the diced green and red peppers and cook for 8 minutes until they begin to soften.
  3. Stir in the diced zucchini and eggplant and cook for 10 minutes, then add the chopped tomatoes, bay leaf, and a pinch of sugar and simmer uncovered for 20 minutes, stirring now and then, until the vegetables collapse into a thick stew.
  4. Season with the salt, fish out the bay leaf, and let the pisto rest a few minutes off the heat so it settles before serving warm or at room temperature.

Serve it with

A Spanish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pisto Manchego (La Mancha Stewed Summer Vegetables), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Pisto Manchego (La Mancha Stewed Summer Vegetables) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Pisto Manchego (La Mancha Stewed Summer Vegetables)
Allergen In this dish
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.

Calorie band
Moderate
Protein
Low
Food groups it covers
Vegetables
How this was set
Hand audited

When to cook it

Pisto Manchego (La Mancha Stewed Summer Vegetables) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.

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