New week on steemit Iron chef!

And this time there is a big surprise, is the first time we have a “free” ingredient to base our reipe on.

As @progressivechef asked, we should be showing the world some local fruit or veggie, and make a nice dish with it.

What a great idea! I would love to discover new products from all over the world!! Even if it’s impossible for me to get them. Learning food culture is allways a pleasure.

I thought for a while and finally decided to present to whom it may not know them…

Grelos

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(This time I forgot to take the picture of them before cooking)

I think there is not even an english translation for that, so I’m going to talk a little bit about them:

Grelos are a vegetable, are eaten mostly in the north-west part of spain (Galicia and Asturias) and north of Portugal.

For what I saw at Wikipedia, there are used in south Italy and some region of Germany also.

Well, as far as I’m concerned, is not a very known product. Even here in Madrid people doesn’t know what i’m talking about when I mention them.

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The plant itself is the end of a kind of turnip which are collected before the floration. It has a light bitter flavour, and usually are eaten boiled.

It’s very present in a few typical galician dishes, beeing the main part of some of them. Galicia is where my mother is from, and since I’ve beeing eating grelos since my childhood, I really love them.

For this week I prepared Lacón con grelos, a very regional dish, only prepared in this part of Spain, It is a traditional food there, usually very roughly served.

But why not to give it a fancy twist? After all, this is SIC!

Ingredients:

Grelos

Lacon

Potatoe

Chorizo

As usual, not a very complicated dish, but full of flavours. I enjoy it every single time I have it.

Sooooooo good.

The key is the quality of the ingredients.

I hope you learned something new. If you know any place where people eats this vegetabe, I would love to know about it! Leave a comment!!

Thanks again to @progressivechef for the efforts to made this great contest possible!! We will keep posting!!

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