Talk:Estofado de venado al pimentón de La Vera (Stewed venison with paprika)
Paprika qty
I've had a pretty good search n the web and in my limited book selection and can't find any recipes with such a huge qty of paprika.
Apart from verbatim copies of the same recipe - but thats probably as a result of mass copy and pasting because the instructions are mostly identical too.
I can't read Spanish, but it might be worth a peruse of the results from this Google search to see if anyone comments on the qty. That said though, most look like copies to me.
my 2$
--Chef 15:38, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Have tested it and started with 15g paprika and increased by tasting. Should be 25 g maximum.
--JuliaBalbilla 16:02, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Garlic qty
JB, further to our previous discussion - I know you (and me too I hasten to add) love garlic, but one whole bulb seems pretty excessive for 4 people (the bulbs I can get are fairly big and meaty with many powerfully flavoured cloves inside), especially when it's being fried and not roasted. But as you seem to have made this quite a few times, I will certainly believe you. Any vampires in the vicinity, beware!!
Amount of paprika seems reasonable and possible to me.
--Roses2at 16:49, 8 August 2010 (BST)
Ha! The original recipe quoted 150g of pimentón de La Vera, which (if you have tasted the stuff) is excessive. Very powerful smoked flavour and aroma. When I made it, I added a little at a time and got Mike to taste it until it suited his taste. He does like big flavours and suspect that whoever put the original recipe on the WWW made a typing error and probably meant 15g. As Jerry suggested, I think the recipe has just been copied and pasted numerous times, without anyone testing the recipe first.
Re garlic, well, what can I say? I get my garlic from an Indian grocer in Cheltenham and the bulbs are fairly large (unlike the miniscule Chinese specimens that you get in supermarkets). Venison has quite a strong flavour and no-one complained about the garlic quantity. However, when I add recipes nowadays, I tend to put 'garlic to taste' and maybe add a note to state how much I actually used. You can never have too much garlic!!! --JuliaBalbilla 06:20, 9 August 2010 (BST)
Good girl. Stand your ground! --Chef 08:54, 9 August 2010 (BST)