How long to cook sopa de gato?

It takes 2 hours to cook the sopa de gato.

How to cook sopa de gato

Products

Bread – 6 slices 1 centimeter thick

Hard cheese – 100 grams

Carrots – 2 pieces

Bow – 1 head

Celery – 1 stalk

Water – 2 liters

Garlic – 4 cloves

Olive oil – 3 tablespoons

Dill, parsley – 5 branches each

Bay leaf – 1 piece

Paprika – on the tip of a teaspoon

Salt, pepper – to taste

How to make sopa de gato

1. Peel 1 onion, cut into 4 parts.

2. Rinse carrots, peel and cut into several pieces.

3. Rinse the celery stalk, peel and cut.

4. Wash greens.

5. Put onions, carrots, celery, 1 bay leaf, sprigs of herbs in a saucepan, add 1 teaspoon of salt, add water and put on medium heat.

6. When the water in the saucepan boils, reduce heat and leave the broth to simmer for 1,5 hours.

7. At the end of the time, turn off the stove, and strain the broth, removing all vegetables and herbs.

8. Cut 6 slices of bread into medium-sized cubes and place on a baking sheet.

9. Preheat the oven to 100 degrees, but no more, as the bread will not be dried, but fried.

10. Place the baking sheet with sliced ​​bread in the oven and dry for 20 minutes.

11. When the time has elapsed, turn off the oven, but do not take out the crackers for another 20 minutes, otherwise they will not be crispy.

12. Peel 4 garlic cloves and chop finely.

13. 100 grams of hard cheese, grate.

14. Pour 3 tablespoons of olive oil into a frying pan, heat over low heat and add dried crackers.

15. Fry them for 4 minutes to darken.

16. Add chopped garlic, paprika, pepper on the tip of a teaspoon, a pinch of salt to a frying pan, pour in 1,5 cups of cooked vegetable broth and mix well.

17. Cook the contents of the pot for 5 minutes.

18. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.

19. Pour the contents of the frying pan into a tall earthenware dish and place in a preheated oven for 10 minutes.

20. At the end of the time, remove the soup from the oven, pour into plates and sprinkle with grated cheese.

Delicious facts

– Sopa de gato is a Spanish dish that is served hot. The traditional ingredients are bread, water, garlic and salt. Often, when baking, the dish is sprinkled with grated cheese or beaten eggs on top.

– The soup was first prepared and tasted in the Spanish town of Cadiz in the XNUMXth century, when it was besieged by pirates. People were in the deposition for a long time and survived only because they cooked soup from bread, water, garlic. After these events, they began to cook it not only in the south of Spain, the recipe for the dish reached Madrid and gradually gained fame throughout Spain. The names of sopa de gato are “cat soup” and “garlic soup”.

– Sopa de gato is cooked for one day, as the soup is very easy to prepare.