Ingredients
Steps:
Peel the potatoes, cut them in thick slices and cook them in a pan with water and salt. Strain them and save them.
Clean the artichokes and put them to cook in a pot with abundant boiling water, with some twigs of parsley and salt. Once cooked, place them in a dish, cut them in half and save them.
To open the cockles, pour the white wine in a pot. Add the cockles, cover it and cook it on a medium heat. Strain the soup and save it. Let the cockles cool down and remove the meat from the shells. Save it.
Peel and cut the garlics and brown them with some oil. Peel and grind the onion and add it. Season it and let it poach. Add three spoonfuls of flour and cook. Pour the soup of the clockes and the white wine. Add the artichokes and the potatoes. Cook it on a medium heat for 5-6 minutes.
Serve three artichokes per portion with two slices of potato. Add sauce and spread some clockes over it. Place a leaf of parsley to decorate.
Tips
To avoid that the artichokes turn dark once cut, rub the cut part with lemon, or immerse them in water with lemon.
This dish carries double the iron we need each day to cover our necessities; therefore it is recommended for people with anaemia or for those whose iron requirements are increased, such as women in fertile ages, the pregnant and the breastfeeding.
This iron is found in the clockes, which also give provide high nutritional value proteins and group B vitamins.
Artichokes also possess diuretic properties, protects the liver and favours digestions.
Also contains vitamin B, which eases the assimilation of the nutrients present in the
Además, contiene vitamina B, que facilita la asimilación y el aprovechamiento de los nutrientes presentes en la diet of this people with little appetite.
The potato provides the carbohydrates required for giving energy to this people. They have to be cooked like in this recipe: steamed or cooked. This way, they preserve better their nutritive properties.
The amount of oil used in this recipe is the appropiate to favour the digestion, as it is only used in the last step, and only a moderate amount.
Accompany this dinner with a pear and apple juice, and as a dessert, natural yogurt with a spoonful of wheat germen.
