The handing over of the keys of Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella by the defeated Baobdil. "It is every Granadine's fave," says the BH.
Moros y cristianos
aka racist rice and beans
c/o Joy of Cooking/Spain
olive oil
1 cup chopped onions
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 chili pepper or red pepper flakes
1 cup diced tomato or can of tomatoes
2 1/2 cups water
1 cup rice
1 tsp salt
2 cups canned black beans or 2/3 cup dried
To cook beans: soak overnight, simmer 30 min.
Heat olive oil over medium in a medium pot. Add onion, garlic, chili and cook 5-8 min or until tender. Stir in tomato, water, rice salt. Bring to a boil. Add black beans and reduce heat to simmer for 20 min. or until rice is tender and water absorbed. Remove from heat and let stand 10 min. covered.
1 comment:
well played square, i think if boabdil was served this delicious dish when he was forced to hand over the keys to granada, the last outpost of the seven hundred year old muslim civilization in spain, that he would have been a lot less bitter
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