New week on steemit Iron chef!

And this time there is a big surprise, is the first time we have a “free” ingredient to base our reipe on. As @progressivechef asked, we should be showing the world some local fruit or veggie, and make a nice dish with it. What a great idea! I would love to discover new products from all over the world!! Even if it’s impossible for me to get them. Learning food culture is allways a pleasure. ![_DSC5900.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmY5PmEXgE1puqvGwJ2SSS2mZvpd92LF2mnJtq7CvXQmWU/_DSC5900.jpg) I thought for a while and finally decided to present to whom it may not know them…

Grelos

![grelos-frescos.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmViKBvii76onq5i7gUPgctvXe8TqtT3dkqDbAEb7Knbqr/grelos-frescos.png) Source (This time I forgot to take the picture of them before cooking) I think there is not even an english translation for that, so I’m going to talk a little bit about them: Grelos are a vegetable, are eaten mostly in the north-west part of spain (Galicia and Asturias) and north of Portugal. For what I saw at Wikipedia, there are used in south Italy and some region of Germany also. Well, as far as I’m concerned, is not a very known product. Even here in Madrid people doesn’t know what i’m talking about when I mention them. ![planta-del-nabo.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcnzcnUhUEpcduaNKksCk1w46nDFU5s46puk9uWNHmMcs/planta-del-nabo.jpg) Source The plant itself is the end of a kind of turnip which are collected before the floration. It has a light bitter flavour, and usually are eaten boiled. It’s very present in a few typical galician dishes, beeing the main part of some of them. Galicia is where my mother is from, and since I’ve beeing eating grelos since my childhood, I really love them. For this week I prepared Lacón con grelos, a very regional dish, only prepared in this part of Spain, It is a traditional food there, usually very roughly served. But why not to give it a fancy twist? After all, this is SIC! ![_DSC5897.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUAAaH9qravEiNsXMSpWiXkHtedNYgguvuZK5fTTph7Zs/_DSC5897.jpg) Ingredients:

Grelos

Lacon

Potatoe

Chorizo

As usual, not a very complicated dish, but full of flavours. I enjoy it every single time I have it.

Sooooooo good.

![_DSC5902.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSVYhdtmMpsfMqHUrHxmKkhHNSUDjMs1Q9XYYxapxPo1W/_DSC5902.jpg) The key is the quality of the ingredients. ![_DSC5908.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaTrKTeaZYZT81aVr1dQSz4eyKuCUKCMLjKkNEr4LUua3/_DSC5908.jpg) I hope you learned something new. If you know any place where people eats this vegetabe, I would love to know about it! Leave a comment!! ![_DSC5913.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmV9bMF226ABS4fLu44ftJEB3hWKduNNfasNDaGPFUzWdR/_DSC5913.jpg) Thanks again to @progressivechef for the efforts to made this great contest possible!! We will keep posting!! Steeeeemmmmmmmmm