We celebrate Castañada with a recipe for Sweet Potato with Iberian ham
The "Castañada" is a popular holiday celebrated on All Saints, own communities like Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. As the Anglo-Saxon Halloween, It is linked to an ancient funeral ritual feast, linked to pagan cults.
We do not know determine the origin of the tradition, but what we do know is that the rites and pagan festivals coincided with the collection of chestnuts and, so, they served as thanks to the gods for the harvest received. Later in history, We find this tradition very close to the figure of the ringers, as, during the night of All Saints, they had to ring the bells of all the steeples of towns and villages. Usually, They were helped by family and friends who were fed with energy food so they could stay awake all day. chestnuts, sweet potatoes and panellets, They washed down with muscatel were the best option to withstand the cold of the night.
Nowadays, we continue to maintain the habit of making a family meal in which we enjoyed as they did, chestnuts, panellets, sweet potatoes and candied fruit, and accompany with muscatel.
Therefore, Today we bring this traditional recipe, but with renewed version, because it includes our flagship product, Iberian Ham. We hope you enjoy it.
Sweet potato stuffed with trumpets of death and Iberian ham Ingredients (4 diners)
- 4 small potatoes
- 2 fresh mozzarella balls
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 sprig of rosemary
- 2 tablespoon of slivered almonds
- 200-250 grams of trumpets of death
- 180-200 grams of ham into small cubes
- necessary amount of extra virgin olive oil
- required amount of salt
- Some flowers of rosemary (optional)
First, turn the oven heat up and down to 180 ° C. Wash the sweet potatoes with a fork and pínchalos, wrap them with aluminum foil and place them in the baking. When the oven is hot, enter the tray and baked 45-60 minutes, until the potatoes are tender.
While, Drain the mozzarella and cut into thin slices, no matter that they are better or worse, They will melt after. Clean the mushrooms carefully so you do not have traces of soil. Leave ham at room temperature and slivered almonds prepares or diced.
When yams are made, remove them from the oven and allowed to lose some temperature to remove the foil. Then performed a longitudinal section to put the filling in the center. Place the mozzarella on open potatoes in the oven and let off so that the cheese is melted with the residual heat of the oven and the potatoes themselves.
To end, prepares a pan with a little extra virgin olive oil and saute garlic, the trumpets of death and almonds, Add a pinch of salt and chopped fresh rosemary leaves. Once the sofrito finished, stay apportion yams, adding the diced ham and rosemary flowers. also we suggest a thread of olive oil.
