{"id":15842,"date":"2025-01-21T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T12:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/uncategorized\/braised-green-beans-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T12:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T12:43:30","slug":"navarran-mixed-vegetable-menestraraised-green-beans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/recipe\/navarran-mixed-vegetable-menestraraised-green-beans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Navarran Mixed Vegetable Menestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<p class=\"back-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/winter-2025\/celebrating-the-mediterranean-diet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back to Food Article<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1_Navarran-Mixed-Vegetable-Menestra-600-smaller-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15744 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1_Navarran-Mixed-Vegetable-Menestra-600-smaller-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1_Navarran-Mixed-Vegetable-Menestra-600-smaller-copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1_Navarran-Mixed-Vegetable-Menestra-600-smaller-copy-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recipe-card\"><\/p>\n<h3>Navarran Mixed Vegetable Menestra<\/h3>\n<p class=\"servings\">Makes 6 servings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>2 artichokes, cleaned, trimmed, split, and quartered<\/li>\n<li>1 cup of shelled and cleaned peas<\/li>\n<li>8 large trimmed brussels sprouts<\/li>\n<li>1 large carrot, washed and cut as you like, (can be julienned or thin slices)<\/li>\n<li>EVOO<\/li>\n<li>4 cloves of crushed garlic<\/li>\n<li>1 large peeled onion, thinly sliced<\/li>\n<li>Salt, black pepper, white pepper<\/li>\n<li>3\u20444 cup serrano ham, sliced into strips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a medium-sized pot, saut\u00e9 2 cloves of crushed garlic in 2 tablespoons of EVOO. Add the brussels sprouts and season with salt and black pepper. Continue saut\u00e9ing for about 10 minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon. Add the chicken stock and water mixture and cover. Continue cooking until just tender, then remove the brussels sprouts from pan and set aside in a serving bowl.<\/p>\n<p>In a medium-sized pan, saut\u00e9 the onion, seasoned with salt, for about 20 minutes until golden, stirring gently at intervals to insure that the onion doesn\u2019t burn. Remove and place in the bowl with the brussels sprouts.<\/p>\n<p>To the same pan used to saut\u00e9 the onions, salt and saut\u00e9 the artichokes in a splash of EVOO, with 2 cloves of crushed garlic for about 10 minutes, stirring gently with a wooden spoon. Then add the mixture of stock\/ water to barely submerge, and cook artichokes, covered, for about 10 minutes or until they are tender. In a small pan, saut\u00e9 the carrots in a little EVOO, a couple pinches of salt, and a little freshly ground white pepper until just tender. As with all of the vegetables, take care and do not overcook. Remove the carrots and put them in the bowl with the brussels sprouts and onion. Add the peas to the pan that was used to saut\u00e9 the carrots, spoon a little EVOO over them, season gently with salt and a little white pepper, and cook until just tender. Gently combine all vegetables and serve warm. Ham or sliced hard-boiled egg is added on top as a garnish.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><p class=\"author-credit\">Recipe and photo reprinted with permission from The Iberian Table by Robin Keuneke\/Bay of Roses Books\/October 2024<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"back-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/winter-2025\/celebrating-the-mediterranean-diet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back to Food Article<\/a><\/p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View recipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipe","category-winter-2025-recipe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15843,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions\/15843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}