Vegetable Stew with Pears

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 20min
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Hearty stew featuring fresh vegetables and sweet pears, a wholesome dish from the legume category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 0.25 head of savoy cabbage
  • 200 g Hokkaido pumpkin
  • 3 Carrots
  • 4 black salsify roots
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 30 g ginger
  • 5 ripe pears
  • 250 g canned chickpeas
  • 1 handful basil
  • 750 ml vegetable broth
  • Salt
  • ground pepper

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Clean the savoy cabbage, slice into thin strips and rinse. Peel the pumpkin and carrots, cut into sticks. Wash, peel, cut black salsify into sticks and keep in lemon water.

  2. 2.

    Peel and finely chop ginger. Peel, core, and cut three pears into sticks. Drain chickpeas in a sieve. Rinse basil, shake dry, and slice leaves into strips.

  3. 3.

    Bring vegetable broth with ginger to a boil in a pot. Add all vegetables and pear sticks, simmer gently for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, wash the remaining pears, halve them, core, and grill cut‑side down in a skillet for about 10 minutes. Season the stew with salt and pepper, then stir in basil.

  4. 4.

    Serve in small bowls or cups and garnish with grilled pears.