[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":402},["ShallowReactive",2],{"recipe:porotos-granados":3,"recipe:country:chile":185},{"slug":4,"title":5,"nativeName":6,"pronunciation":7,"countrySlug":8,"region":9,"emoji":10,"summary":11,"intro":12,"story":13,"whyThis":14,"tips":19,"substitutions":26,"variations":39,"serveWith":49,"storage":51,"faq":52,"equipment":68,"baseServings":72,"prepMinutes":73,"cookMinutes":74,"difficulty":75,"course":76,"diet":78,"mainIngredients":83,"ingredients":88,"instructions":137,"nutrition":157,"images":166,"keywords":176,"publishedAt":183,"updatedAt":183,"authorSlug":184},"porotos-granados","Porotos Granados (Chilean Bean, Corn and Squash Stew)","Porotos granados","poh-ROH-tohs grah-NAH-dohs","chile","Zona Central","🫘","Fresh shelled cranberry beans simmered with winter squash until it melts into the pot, thickened with grated corn and scented heavily with basil. Chile's summer stew, and meatless by tradition.","This is the stew Chileans cook in February, when fresh cranberry beans are still in their speckled pods and corn is at its starchiest. The beans simmer with onion, paprika and a large quantity of squash, which slowly disintegrates and thickens the pot on its own; grated fresh corn goes in near the end and thickens it further, and a fistful of basil is stirred through at the last moment. The result is dense, sweet-edged and deeply savoury, somewhere between a stew and a very thick soup, with no meat in it at all. It is eaten with a spoon from a shallow bowl, with pebre on the side and a piece of bread.","Corn, beans and squash were farmed together across the Americas long before Europeans arrived, and porotos granados is one of the clearest surviving examples of that partnership on a Chilean table. All three plants are indigenous to the continent, the word poroto comes from Quechua purutu, and the dish requires none of the ingredients the Spanish brought — the onion and paprika that most cooks now add are later refinements to something that worked without them. Granados refers to the state of the bean: fully formed and plump inside the pod, but not yet dried.\n\nThat detail fixes the dish to a season. Fresh cranberry beans, sold in their cream and crimson-streaked pods, appear in Chilean markets for a few weeks in high summer, and the same weeks bring choclo and the first good squash. Households shell beans in quantity during those weeks, often on a table outside, and the dish appears once or twice a week until the pods stop coming. Out of season, Chilean cooks generally accept dried beans and admit the difference rather than pretending there is none.\n\nThere are two accepted ways to finish it, and the argument between them is friendly but real. Con mazamorra means the corn is grated or blitzed into a paste and stirred in, so the stew becomes thick and uniform; con pilco — also called pirco — keeps the kernels whole and usually adds green beans, giving a looser, chunkier pot. Basil is non-negotiable in either version, and it is added off the heat, because Chilean cooks learned long ago that basil boiled for even a few minutes goes dark and tastes of hay. That a country as committed to beef as Chile keeps a vegetarian stew in its permanent repertoire is worth noticing; nobody here treats porotos granados as a compromise or a lesser dish.",[15,16,17,18],"Squash is added in two stages — half early to melt into the broth, half late to stay in pieces — so the stew has body and texture.","Corn is grated rather than dropped in whole, which is the mazamorra method that gives the pot its thickness.","Basil goes in off the heat, keeping its perfume instead of turning dark and grassy.","A workable dried-bean version with honest timings for when fresh cranberry beans are out of season.",[20,21,22,23,24,25],"Fresh shelled cranberry beans need only 30 to 40 minutes and no soaking — treat them as a vegetable rather than a pulse.","Salt the beans only once they are tender. Salted early, their skins toughen and stay chewy no matter how long the pot runs.","Use a dense, dry squash such as kabocha or butternut. Watery pumpkin turns the stew thin and sugary instead of thick and savoury.","If the corn tastes sweet rather than starchy, cut it with a tablespoon of cornmeal so the stew still thickens properly.","Stir the base often once the corn goes in — corn starch sinks and catches on the bottom of the pan within a minute of being ignored.","Serve it thick enough that a spoon stood in the middle leans rather than falls. Chileans consider a runny pot underdone.",[27,31,35],{"original":28,"swap":29,"note":30},"Fresh cranberry beans","250 g dried cranberry or borlotti beans, soaked overnight","Soak them, then simmer 60–75 minutes in unsalted water before starting the recipe. The texture is close; what you lose is the faint sweetness and the creamy skin of a bean picked fresh.",{"original":32,"swap":33,"note":34},"Choclo (starchy Chilean corn)","Sweetcorn kernels plus 1–2 tbsp fine cornmeal","Sweetcorn carries more sugar and less starch. The cornmeal restores the thickening power and keeps the finished stew from tasting like a dessert.",{"original":36,"swap":37,"note":38},"Fresh basil","A large handful of flat-leaf parsley with a pinch of dried oregano","Not traditional, and clearly different, but it keeps the stew fresh at the finish. Dried basil is not a useful substitute here.",[40,43,46],{"name":41,"description":42},"Porotos con pilco","Also called pirco: the corn kernels are left whole and green beans join the pot, giving a looser, chunkier stew rather than a thick one.",{"name":44,"description":45},"Porotos con riendas","A heartier winter relative in which dried beans are cooked with squash and short lengths of spaghetti — the \"reins\" of the name — often with sausage.",{"name":47,"description":48},"With longaniza","Slices of smoked pork sausage browned first and simmered in the stew, which is common in the south and turns the dish decisively non-vegetarian.",[50],"Pebre and bread, and a plate of sliced tomatoes with onion to cut the density of the stew.","This keeps 4 days refrigerated and thickens noticeably overnight as the corn starch sets; loosen it with a little hot water when reheating and taste again for salt, since a thicker pot tastes blander. It freezes well for 3 months, better than most vegetable stews, because there is no dairy or meat to separate — freeze it before adding the basil and stir fresh basil in after thawing. Reheat over low heat with regular stirring, as the corn base will catch on the bottom of the pan if left alone.",[53,56,59,62,65],{"question":54,"answer":55},"What are porotos granados exactly?","Granados describes fresh shell beans — cranberry or borlotti beans that are fully grown and plump inside the pod but have not been dried. They cook in about half an hour, need no soaking, and taste sweeter and creamier than the dried version of the same bean. The dish takes its name from them, which is why it is traditionally a summer dish tied to the few weeks they are in season.",{"question":57,"answer":58},"Can I make it with dried or canned beans?","Yes. Soak dried cranberry or borlotti beans overnight and simmer them until tender, about an hour, before building the stew around them. Canned beans work at a push — add them in the last fifteen minutes so they do not collapse. Both give a good stew; neither has quite the delicate skin and sweetness of fresh shell beans.",{"question":60,"answer":61},"Why does my stew stay watery?","Usually because the squash was too wet or the corn too sweet. Porotos granados thickens from two sources: squash breaking down into the liquid and corn starch released by grated kernels. Use a dense, dry-fleshed squash, let half of it disintegrate completely, and add a tablespoon or two of fine cornmeal if the corn is a sweet supermarket variety.",{"question":63,"answer":64},"Is porotos granados vegan?","In its standard form, yes — beans, squash, corn, onion, basil and oil, with no animal products at all. Some southern households add smoked sausage or cook it with a piece of pork, and restaurant versions sometimes use meat stock, so it is worth asking. Made as written here it is entirely plant-based and also gluten-free.",{"question":66,"answer":67},"When should the basil go in?","At the very end, off the heat, after the pot has stopped bubbling. Basil loses its aroma within a couple of minutes of boiling and its leaves turn dark and slippery. 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Stir in the paprika, cumin and oregano and fry for 30 seconds, until the oil takes on colour and the spices smell toasted.",{"title":142,"text":143,"timerSeconds":144,"tip":145},"Simmer the beans","Add the shelled beans and half the squash cubes, pour in the water, and bring to a simmer. Cook uncovered for 30 minutes, until the beans are creamy right through when crushed against the side of the pot and the first batch of squash has dissolved into the liquid.",1800,"Hold back the salt until the beans are soft — added early, it keeps the skins tough.",{"title":147,"text":148},"Grate the corn","While the beans cook, blitz {qty:corn} of corn kernels to a coarse paste in a food processor, or grate the cobs on the large holes of a box grater and scrape the cobs with the back of a knife to catch the milk.",{"title":150,"text":151,"timerSeconds":152,"tip":153},"Add the second squash and the corn","Stir in the remaining squash cubes and cook 10 minutes, then add the corn paste and season with salt and pepper. Simmer a final 12–15 minutes, stirring frequently, until the stew is thick enough that a spoon drawn across the bottom leaves a track and the squash pieces are tender but still recognisable.",900,"From here it will catch and scorch if you leave it — keep the spoon moving across the base of the pot.",{"title":155,"text":156},"Finish with basil","Take the pot off the heat, stir through the chopped basil, cover and leave for 2 minutes so the aroma spreads. Taste and adjust the salt — a thick stew usually needs more than you expect. 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