Chef Isabel
Potaje de Jaramagos Canario
Potaje de jaramagos is Canary Island cocina de cuchara, spoon food, built like a berros potaje but marked by the clean bitterness of wild mustard greens gathered after the rains.
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Chef Isabel
Potaje de Lentejas Canario
Potaje de lentejas canario is island spoon food: small lentils, papas, carrot, slow sofrito, and the garlic-cumin majado that gives the pot its Canarian voice.
Chef Lupita
Potaje de Lentejas Yucateco
Yucatán's Wednesday lentil stew, built on pork ribs, longaniza, achiote-stained broth, and the sweet jolt of fried black plantain. A peninsula dish that argues sweet and savory belong in the same bowl.
Chef Isabel
Potaje de Millo de Lanzarote
Potaje de Millo is Lanzarote's corn stew: soaked millo, beans, garden vegetables and salted pork, cooked slow until the kernels give and the pot feeds the table for days.
Chef Isabel
Potaje de Trigo Palmero
Potaje de trigo palmero is La Palma's sturdy spoon food: whole wheat and chickpeas cooked slowly with papas and pork until the grain opens, thickens the broth, and feeds the table properly.
Chef Isabel
Potaje de Vigilia Castellano
Castile's Lenten potaje is thick spoon food for Cuaresma: chickpeas, salt cod, spinach, pimentón sofrito, and egg. Soak the garbanzos, keep the pot gentle, and add the cod last.
Chef Dean
Potato Leek Soup
The most honest of French soups: sweet leeks and tender potatoes simmered in good stock and pureed into velvet, finished with cream and served with nothing but chives and a warm spoon.
Chef Isabel
Pote Asturiano
Pote Asturiano is Asturias in a winter pot: fabes, berza, potato, and smoked compango cooked slow until the greens soften and the broth turns thick and green-gold.
Chef Isabel
Pote Gallego
Pote Gallego is Galicia's winter spoon food: white beans, grelos, potato, and pork cooked low until the greens sweeten, the potatoes roughen the broth, and the pot becomes a full meal.
Chef Remy
Potlikker Soup with Greens
Smoky ham hock and tender collard greens swimming in a broth so rich with minerals and flavor that your grandmother would call it medicine, served with hot cornbread for soaking up every last drop.
Chef Lupita
Pozole Blanco Sinaloense
Sinaloa's white pozole, pork shoulder and hominy in a clear garlic-onion broth, no chile in the pot. The heat comes at the table, from a pinch of crushed chiltepin and a squeeze of lime.
Chef Lupita
Pozole de Jaiba Sinaloense
Sinaloa's coastal pozole, blue crab and hominy simmered in a toasted-guajillo and chiltepin broth, finished with cilantro and dried shrimp. The Pacific coast's answer to Jalisco's pozole rojo.
Chef Lupita
Pozole Mixteco Oaxaqueño
Oaxaca's Mixteca pozole, built on chile costeño rojo and a clean pork broth ladled thin as consommé, served with chicharrón crumbles, shredded cabbage, and oregano. A celebration pot from a region most people outside Mexico have never heard of.
Chef Lupita
Pozole Verde Guerrerense
Guerrero's Thursday pozole, a deep green pot of pork, cacahuazintle hominy, toasted pepita, tomatillo, epazote and hoja santa, built for bowls lined with radish, onion, avocado and chicharron.
Chef Lupita
Pozole Verde Poblano
Puebla's pozole verde, built on charred tomatillos, toasted pepitas, hoja santa, and cacahuazintle hominy, cooked into a green broth that is brighter than rojo and just as deep.
Chef Jeong-sun
Ppyeo-haejangguk (Pork Spine Hangover Soup)
A deep Korean pork-spine soup with tender meat, ugeoji greens, potatoes, and nutty perilla seed powder, built by cleaning the bones properly before the long simmer begins.
Chef Ally
Provençal Fish Stew with Saffron and Rouille
Fresh fish from a fishmonger you trust, simmered gently in a saffron and tomato broth fragrant with fennel and orange, served with a fiery rouille and bread to soak up every drop.
Chef Makoa
Puaʻa Choux Chinois (Tahitian Pork and Chinese Cabbage Stew)
A Tahitian Sunday pot from the Chinese-Tahitian table: pork belly, Chinese cabbage, carrots, and turnips simmered soft in a savory broth, made for rice and one more bowl.
Chef Isabel
Puchero Andaluz con Pringá
Puchero Andaluz is Andalucía's pale chickpea cocido, built from soaked garbanzos, salted bones, chicken, beef, pork, and patience, then served as clean broth first and pringá mashed onto bread after.
Chef Isabel
Puchero Canario
Puchero Canario is the islands' generous cocido: chickpeas, meats, corn cob, sweet potato, pumpkin, cabbage, and potatoes, cooked in order so every vegetable keeps its name.
Chef Isabel
Puchero de Hinojos Granadino
Puchero de Hinojos is Granada Alpujarra spoon food: chickpeas, white beans, wild fennel, pork, and morcilla, with the fennel scalded first when tough so its bitterness seasons the pot instead of ruling it.
Chef Juliana
Puchero Gaúcho
You think a big southern pot is too much for you. It isn't. Salted meat, chickpeas, roots, cabbage, and patience solve dinner for today and tomorrow.
Chef Lupita
Puchero Tabasqueño de Res y Plátano Macho
Tabasco's lowland beef puchero, built with marrow bones, plátano macho, yuca, macal, chayote, calabaza, elote, herbs, and a spoon of arroz frito stirred into the bowl.
Chef Isabel
Puchero Valenciano con Pelota
Puchero valenciano is Valencia's winter cocido: a clear, generous pot of chickpeas, meats, greens, and the cabbage-wrapped pelota that makes it Valencian, with fideo soup served first.
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