This recipe is intended for 4 persons. 10 minutes aprox to prepare, 35 minutes aprox cooking. Total time aprox: 45 minutes.

Ingredients

ð       750 gr of fresh tuna (frozen prev. melted to fresh).

ð       900 gr of potatoes.

ð       350 gr of red peppers, roasted and peeled.

ð       3 tablespoonful of olive oil (works well with sunflower oil too, never use butter)

ð       1 onion, big, cut in rings.

ð       2 garlic units, chopped the smallest you can.

ð       1 laurel leaf

ð       Salt and black pepper ground for the moment.

ð       400 gr of chopped tomatos (also works with regular tomato sauce, if it doesn’t contain oil or spices)

ð       300 gr of green peas (if frozen, melt first)

ð       2 teaspoons of parsley, in small bits

Preparation (get all ready to start cooking)

1. Peel potatoes and cut them on medium pieces or slices (not very small).
2. Chop tuna with the same size of potatoes, take out skin and fishbone (and every little bit from it).
3. Red peppers, if aren’t roasted, do now, if you don’t have oven or ar not sure of how to use it with peppers, use microwave grill, and roast them till skin turns dark brown. Let them freshen a bit and peel them. Cut them in stripes. If you happen to find the roasted red peppers on a can or alike, you lucky, just cut them on stripes, and don’t worry about the juice they have, or seeds (not much of them). NEVER use pickled.
4. Peel and cut onion in the finest rings you can do. Be careful not to cut yourself.
5. Peel and cut garlics into the most finest you can do, the smaller bits the better.
6. Get green peas placed on a bowl or deep dish. If frozen, melt them before starting preparation.
7. Get the spices ready: 1 laurel leaf, salt, black pepper in its grounder, and parsley well chopped.
8. Skin off tomatoes, then chop them till they look nearly mashed. If it’s sauce, check it has no oil or spices. Also there are cans of mashed tomatoes, check them!!!
9. Get a vase of water, or bowl or bottle.
10. Prepare a pot, big enough to contain all food of preparation. Also, use wooden or Teflon instruments to stir food properly without problems (it may modify its taste if iron or steel used on it).

Cooking.

1. Place a pot on the fire, drop oil in it, and warm it with fire at max.
2. Drop onion, garlic and laurel leaf on the pan. Drop fire to half and cook them softly till onion gets soft and transparent. Move frequently, to avoid burn or colour.
3. When onion is really soft, add potatoes and keep stirring for a while. Use now salt and ground black pepper on it. Stir to mix all just a bit, then use water till it covers potatoes (this is the reason pan should be big enough). Raise fire a bit, between max and medium.Let it boil around 10 minutes or till potatoes are almost boiled.
4. Add now the tomatoes, mix well and let it cook for around 5 minutes more. Take away laurel leaf.
5. Lower now fire to min., add tuna pieces, mix and let ir cook for other 5 minutes aprox (you’ll see tuna turns from red to gray)
6. Add now green peas and red pepper stripes, mix and let it cook on slow slow fire, around 10 minutes more. Check taste and correct now salt, if needed.

Serve.

1. Use deep dishes to serve, place one ration on each dish.
2. Sprinkle parsley over each dish.
3. Serve always warm, nearly hot. Place spoons and forks to eat it.

And, as Basque says for bon appetite…. On Egin!!!

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