Guiñapos, a stew made with fresh fish dough

Guiñapos, a stew made with fresh fish dough

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A Spanish-style stew of thin pasta sheets, desalinated cod, mussels, prawns, and globe artichokes, flavored with saffron: a hearty dish from the coast.

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Guiñapos is a Spanish stew made with thin slices of fresh pasta cooked in a fragrant broth flavored with saffron, along with cod, mussels, shrimp, and globe artichokes. It should be kept submerged in the broth.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time30 min
  • Cook time30 min
  • Resting30 min
  • Total1 hr 30 min
  • DifficultyHard
  • CostBudget
  • Cooking methodnibbling
  • Estimated cost$5.10 $2.55 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 7, 2026.
  • Low lactose

Ingredients

2 people
  • $0.08
  • $0.34
  • $0.07
  • $0.05
  • $4.14
  • $0.22
  • $0.02
  • $0.18

Prices from US supermarkets for 5 of 8 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Prepare a dough using the flour. Once it has rested, roll it out thinly and cut it into small rectangles, leaving them under a cloth.
  2. First, sauté the onion in olive oil, then add the peeled, seeded, and very finely chopped tomatoes.
  3. Add the globe artichokes and some water to cook them.
  4. Add the mussels and prawns, then the garlic, saffron, and salt, to the sofrito. ≈ 3 min
  5. Once the sofrito is ready, add the de-salted cod, skinless and boneless, cut into small pieces. ≈ 3 min
  6. Pour a sufficient amount of broth, then gradually add the pasta sheets and allow them to cook.
  7. The dish should remain well-covered in broth. Season with mint to taste.

The bill

Guiñapos, a stew made with fresh fish dough

  • onion$0.08
  • A ripe, red tomato$0.34
  • flour$0.07
  • Allium sativum$0.05
  • saffron$4.14
  • mint$0.22
  • salt$0.02
  • olive oil$0.18

Total$5.10

that's $2.55 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • Thin-flake salt cod
  • onion
  • A ripe, red tomato
  • Oysters
  • Shrimp
  • globe artichoke
  • flour
  • Allium sativum
  • saffron
  • mint
  • salt
  • olive oil

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