Porotos Granados recipe
If you're looking to bring some Latin American magic to a cool autumn evening, Porotos Granados is a much-loved Chilean dish ticks all the boxes. Featuring some of South America’s best and most emblematic flavours – beans, pumpkin, sweetcorn and tomatoes, it’s a wholesome, warm, comforting and fabulously healthy option that is vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free and it looks beautiful too. Serve up a dish and let your tastebuds waft you off to rural Chile, where cowboys still ride home from work to feast al fresco on hearty cuisine like porotos granados under the shade of a pergola bedecked with jasmine and grapevines.
Porotos granados is the name in Chile for the Borlotti beans so widely used in Italian cuisine. They also go by the name of Cranberry beans in some places around the world. Mounds of these pretty pink beans can be found in Chilean fruit and vegetable markets from January to May each year. At other times of year you can buy them in their dried form.