From our Kitchen - delicious, favas guisadas, or fava stew, made with green broad beans (fava verde) and in a spicy tomato and beer based sauce with lots of linguica (Portuguese sausage), onions and garlic. This one is made with canned green favas (green broad beans), but you can use this recipe to make traditional brown fava bean stew, or even with dried favas of any type.

You can adjust this recipe to make a more or less saucy stew, and can spice it to your taste. My first attempt at providing recipe instruction in both English and Portuguese, so let me know what you think!

Favas Guisadas

Ingredients
1 lb Linguica or Chourico (Sliced or Chopped)
1 can tomato sauce
3 onions
4 cans of green or brown favas
2 Beers
¼ cup minced garlic
1 can tomato paste
Salt and pepper to taste
Olive oil
½ cup Chicken broth
Paprika
Red pepper flakes
RedHot Seasoning or Sazon Goya Seasoning

Directions
Drizzle some olive oil in bottom of deep pot and add onions. Slowly let the onions start to soften. Now add the garlic, the chicken broth, the chopped linguica or chourico, and the spices to the mix. Allow to simmer for a bit, then add the tomato sauce and the tomato paste to the pot. Allow all of this to simmer till onions are soft and linguica cooks down. Add the cans of favas to the pot, 2 cans should be drained of liquid, and 2 cans should be added with the liquid. Taste to check on level of salt/pepper, etc. adjust according to your taste, and then allow it all to simmer for a while. It will need to simmer for a while, until the favas start to soften. Make sure to also add a bit more paprika, the RedHot or Goya Seasoning, and any hot sauce – this is optional, and to your taste. Now add the beer and let it all simmer and stew away uncovered. Eventually it will distill down a bit, and all of it stews away. Make sure the favas are soft, and the onions are soft as well. When the linguica, favas and onion are soft and well-cooked, the stew is ready!