Soups & Stews
Fabada asturiana
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Fabada is a dish for days with time: large white beans slowly braise with Spanish sausage and pork specialties to form a creamy, deeply aromatic stew.
Timing
- Preparation: 20 min.
- Cooking/Baking: 150 mins.
- Rest time: 720 min.
Estimated nutrition
per serving · Calculated for 6 servings.
- Energy
- ≈ 525 kcal
- Protein
- ≈ 34 g
- Carbohydrates
- ≈ 24.4 g
- Fat
- ≈ 25.7 g
The nutrition values are estimates based on the ingredients and quantities used. Actual values may vary depending on the product, portion size and preparation.
Calculation basis
Item weights and household measures are estimated. Unless specified: milk with 1.5% fat, cream with 30% fat and Gouda cheese. Optional ingredients, small amounts of seasoning and separately listed side dishes are excluded. For imprecise entries, the amounts below and comparable reference products are assumed. For alternatives, the first listed ingredient is used. Cooking losses have not been measured.
Calculated estimate using the reference foods below. Substitute products, item weights and consumed fractions are assumptions. Ordinary cooking oil and marinades are counted in full; frying oil, coatings, bones and whole roasts use the stated factors. The higher serving count is used for ranges. Actual product values and cooking losses have not been measured.
Paprikapulver (Matvaretabellen)
Ingredient amounts for the whole recipe; linked reference names retain the source language
- 500 g dried large white beans (fabes or butter beans) · ≈ 500 g · Assumed quantity / reference product
Beans, white, uncooked (MT:06.084) - 200 g mild Spanish chorizo for cooking · ≈ 200 g · Assumed quantity / reference product
Sausage, chorizo (MT:03.363) - 200 g morcilla (Spanish black pudding), if available · ≈ 200 g · Assumed quantity / reference product
Graupenblutwurst (W384200) - 250 g smoked pork belly · ≈ 250 g · Assumed quantity / reference product
Schwein Bauchspeck, Rohpökelware, geräuchert (W411300) - 1 onion · ≈ 100 g · Assumed item weight × count; total amount
Speisezwiebel roh (G480100) - 1.8 liters of water, more if necessary · ≈ 1800 g · Assumed quantity / reference product
Trinkwasser (N110000) - 1 tsp mild paprika powder · ≈ 2.5 g · Assumed quantity / reference product
Paprikapulver (Matvaretabellen) (PAPRIKA)
Not included in the base calculation
- 2 bay leaves · Aromatic / small seasoning or colouring amount
- Salt at the end · Salt or small seasoning amount; no salt/micronutrient calculation
Matvaretabellen: Mattilsynet · Santa Maria
Food data: Max Rubner-Institut, BLS 4.0 (2025), CC BY 4.0. Calculated and rounded for this recipe. BLS 4.0 · CC BY 4.0
Ingredients
- 500 g dried large white beans (fabes or butter beans)
- 200 g mild Spanish chorizo for cooking
- 200 g morcilla (Spanish black pudding), if available
- 250 g smoked pork belly
- 1 onion
- 2 bay leaves
- 1.8 liters of water, more if necessary
- 1 tsp mild paprika powder
- Salt at the end
Instructions
- Soak beans in plenty of cold water for 12 hours; pour off. Boil vigorously in a large pot of fresh water for 10 minutes.
- Add beans, pork belly, whole peeled onion and bay leaf with around 1.8 l of fresh water. After boiling, put on a low heat.
- Cook just below boiling point for about 90 minutes. Only shake the pot so that the bean skins do not tear open; if necessary, add hot water.
- Add the chorizo and morcilla whole and cook gently for another 30-60 minutes until the beans are soft. Remove the sausage and cut it.
- Mash a small amount of beans to bind the liquid. Season with paprika powder and sparingly salt. Serve with the sliced sausages.
Tips
- Cook beans slowly until soft; Stirring too hard will break it. Once cooled and warmed up, the sauce becomes even thicker.
- Large white butter beans replace Fabes. Without morcilla, expressly mark it as a simplified home version; Do not replace it with German black pudding without a suitability test.
