How to prepare Arvejas or Canarian Style Peas?
The archipelago’s gastronomy is full of options with different flavors that give an authentic touch to your dishes. The Canarian style peas, called Arvejas, is a fairly simple dish with a rich sauce and totally original flavors.
Ingredients:
- 800 grams of peas.
- Three cloves of garlic.
- 800 grams of natural crushed tomato.
- Sugar (half a spoonful).
- Olive oil
- An onion.
- Four hard-boiled eggs.
- Oregano (a spoonful).
- Salt.
Preparation
A very simple traditional recipe with a delicious result that only consists of a few steps:
- The first thing we have to do is peel the garlic and onion and chop them very well.
- Then put 4 tablespoons of olive oil in a frying pan and add the chopped garlic until they are well browned.
- Next, we will put the crushed tomato and the oregano, add the sugar and the amount of salt that we want. Let everything cook together.
- A good accompaniment for this dish would be some hard-boiled eggs on top. You can also add pork ribs or ham.
- Now we will add the onion and we will lower the fire so that it is well cooked.
- When we see that it begins to boil we will add the peas and we will leave that they remain well tender.
These are the ingredients and steps necessary to cook Arvejas or Canarian style peas that, as we see, is a very simple recipe with a wealth of flavors and ingredients.