Saturday, April 6, 2013

Fanesca

Lunch in my mother's house.
The fanesca is a soup traditional to Ecuador. It is typically prepared and served only in the week before Easter. It is a rich soup, with the primary ingredients being figleaf gourd, pumpkin and twelve different kinds of beans and grains (lupines, fava beans, lentils, peas, corn and others) representing the twelve apostles of Jesus, and bacalao (salt cod), cooked in milk, due to the Catholic religious prohibition against red meat during Holy Week. It is also generally garnished with hard boiled eggs, fried plantains, herbs, parsley, and sometimes empanadas.
  
* Almuerzo en casa de mamá.
La fanesca es una sopa típica de la cocina ecuatoriana, se sirve tradicionalmente en el periodo de Semana Santa . Se cocina en una base de leche y bacalao. Este exquisito plato funde la tradición indígena a la cultura española. En honor a los doce apóstoles, lleva 12 ingredientes, entre los cuales están granos típicamente Andinos como son: choclo, chochos, habas, arvejas, lenteja, maní y fréjol.



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