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Olla podrida is a Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 stew
Stew

A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy.Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables , meat, poultry, sausages and seafood....
 made from pork and beans
Pork and beans

Pork and beans is a culinary dish that uses pork and beans as its main ingredients. Numerous variations exist from Fabada Asturiana to Olla podrida to plain American canned pork and beans....
 and an inconsistent wide variety of other meats and vegetables depending on the recipe used. The meal is traditionally prepared in a clay pot over several hours. It is eaten as a main course; sometimes as a single dish and sometimes with ingredients separated - meats from the rest and/or liquids from solids.

podrida is a popular dish.






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Olla podrida is a Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 stew
Stew

A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy.Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables , meat, poultry, sausages and seafood....
 made from pork and beans
Pork and beans

Pork and beans is a culinary dish that uses pork and beans as its main ingredients. Numerous variations exist from Fabada Asturiana to Olla podrida to plain American canned pork and beans....
 and an inconsistent wide variety of other meats and vegetables depending on the recipe used. The meal is traditionally prepared in a clay pot over several hours. It is eaten as a main course; sometimes as a single dish and sometimes with ingredients separated - meats from the rest and/or liquids from solids.

History

Olla podrida is a popular dish. The name, as currently written, translates literally to "rotten pot". This etymology is sustained by a footnote to a 1849 edition of Don Quixote
Don Quixote

, fully titled is an early novel written by Spain author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story based upon a manuscript by the invented Moors historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli....
 signed by "Arr[ieta]" (credited as numerary member of the Real Academia
Real Academia Española

[Image:Estatutos rae 1715big.jpg|thumb|200px|Frontispiece: Fundaci?n y estatutos de la Real Academia Espa?ola The Real Academia Espa?ola , the RAE, is the official royal institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language....
 in the front page) stating that
"[...] it makes a stock as full of substance as aromatic, and maybe because of that it was ironically called 'olla podrida'. It could be named so, Covarrubias says, as long as it is so slowly cooked that what is inside almost melts and results like fruit after too much ripening."


Another etymology, generally accepted, is that the name of the dish comes from olla poderida, referred to the "powerfulness" of the ingredients. The e was eventually dropped in the evolution of the language. The dictionary of the Spanish Real Academia Autoridades of 1737 supports this theory, in page 34, column 2:
"Covarr[ubias] gives its etymology and, citing Andreas Bacio, says that 'podrida' is the same as 'poderida' or 'poderosa'. Lat[in] 'Ollaris farrago' [...]"It can be read online at the , keyword "olla", criterium: "Diccionarios, 1737 Academia Autoridades (O-R)..


In Don Quixote
Don Quixote

, fully titled is an early novel written by Spain author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story based upon a manuscript by the invented Moors historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli....
 -- first published in 1605 -- Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel by many, is a classic of Western literature and is regularly regarded among the best novels ever written....
 has the gluttonous Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza

Sancho Panza is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spain author Miguel de Cervantes in 1602. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote, and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos, that are a combination of broad humor, ironic Spanish proverbs, and earthy wit....
 say these words:
"This plate that is steaming in front of me appears to me to be olla podrida, because of the diversity of ingredients that there are in some ollas podridas, I won't be able to stop running into some that is to me of taste and benefit..."

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See also

  • Mulligan stew