Pork Stew from Cáceres

 The recipe I bring today, pork stew, is very typical in Cáceres, together with the lamb stew.

This is a traditional stew that you can eat every day or in special days.

Ingredients:

- 1/2 kilo pork meat cut into cubes.

- 2 onion.

- 2 carrots.

- 1 green pepper.

- oil.

- 2 potatoes.

- Salt.

- 1 Glass of water.

- 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce.

- 1 choricero pepper.

- a dash of red wine.

- Black Pepper.

- Thyme.

- Paprika.

Method:

1- Cut the green pepper and the onion into cubes, sautée in a frying pan with some oil until the onion is done.

2- Add the meat, salt, paprika ,pepper and the meat cook at medium heat until the meat changes the colour.

3- Add the tomato, chiricero pepper and water.

Add a dash of wine and the carrots cut into 1 cm slices. Cook for half an hour at medium heat without a lid.

4- Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes, fry in a pan with a little oil and salt.                                                                  

5- Turn off the heat of the casserole with the meat, add the fried potatoes over the meat, mix well , with the heat of the stew the potatoes will soften.

Now you can serve and taste!

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Cáceres

Sancocho

Sancocho is a staple dish in Colombia, it is also very common in Venezuela, Panama ,Ecuador ,Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Replubic.

This is a stew made from meet or fish and different types of tuber.

I present you the meat Sancocho, with a mix of different types of meat.

Ingredients:

- Spring onion or chive.

- 1 plantain.

- 2 onions.

- Garlic.

- 1 cob of corn.

- 1 yucca.

- 1 potato.

- 1/4 de pumpkin.

- Coriander.

- 3 tomatos.

- Cow meat and chicken .

- Thyme.

- Cumin.

- Oregano.

- Ground garlic.

Method:

1- Cook the meat with some water and salt using a pressure cooker, cook for 15 minutes.

2- Cut the onion and garlic in little pieces, fry until they are soft.

3- Cut chive and coriander.

4- Cut pumpkin and tomato into pieces.

5- Put inside one cooking pot, add meat, salt and the spices thyme, cumin, oregano and ground garlic. Pour some water until all the ingredients are covered. Cook on a medium heat, cover with a lid.

 

6- Cut the plantain in pieces, do not use one knife, use your hands.

7- Cut the potato and yucca, cut the corn cob into two pieces. Put inside the pot , cook until the tubers are soft.

Now the sancocho is ready, serve with white rice or avocado.

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Colombia

Empanada from Colombia

                                                                                Receta en Español

The empanada reached Colombia with the spanish conquest, the original empanadas came from Galicia, the recipe changed in Colombia to adapt to the local ingredients.

At the beginning the empanadas were cooked in the oven, later they were fried, due to the African influence. The original empanadas were made from wheat flour, this was later changed to precooked corn flour.

The empanadas were original from Grecia and the Persian Empire, this way of cooking allowed to move the food wrapped in bread. That's the meaning of 'empanar' to wrap in bread.

This way of cooking reached Spain with the arab invasion on the VIII century.

El most typical filling is made from meat and vegetables.

Ingredients:

- Oil.

- 1/2 kilo shredded meat.

- 6 tomatos.

- 3 onios.

- 1/2 kilo precooked corn flour.

- 1 fresh coriander.

- Garlic.

- chili.

- 6 medium potatos.

- Cumin.

- Thyme.

- Ground garlic.

- Saffron.

- Salt.

- Water

Method:

1- Put the meat in a casserole together with some water, salt, onion, persil, leek, carrot and bay leaves.

Keep the broth, you will use it later to moisten the empanadas.

2- Peel and cut potatos into little cubes, cook them in water with salt during 12 minutes.

3- Cut onions, tomatos and garlic into little cubes.

4- Sautée onions and garlic.

5- Add the spices, the shredded meat, potatos, tomatos and cook for several minutes until all the ingredients are well cooked. Let it get cool.

6- Now it is time to make the dough. To obtain the characteristic yellow we use some threads of saffron, let it infuse in hot water during at least 10 minutes.

7- Put the flour in a bowl , add salt and the infused water. 

knead until it is homogeneous, if needed use some broth to moisten the dough.

Take some cling film, put it on a surface , moisten it with some oil.

Take a portion of dough, put it on the cling film, flatten and put some filling in the middle.

Follow the process you see in the photos:

8 - Fry the empanadas in hot oil.

9 - The empanadas are accompanied by the ají, cut the tomato into little cubes, cut the onion into little pieces. Mix together with some oil, salt and chili.

Where to buy the ingredients

Here you have links to the precooked corn flour.

This is the one with yellow colour:

 

   

 This is the one with white colour:

 

  

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Colombia

Lettuce Burritos

 Eating healthy can be eating tasty and fun, this recipe is a healthy version of burritos.

Instead of corn tortilla we use lettuce filled with chicken, mushrooms, pears and cheese. This is a tasty mixture to create a nutritious dish.

Ingredients:

- Lettuce.
- Chicken breast.
- Mushrooms.
- 2 pears.
- Salt.
- Ground garlic.
- Parsley.

- Thyme.

- Rosemary.

- Cheese to melt.

Method:

1- Cut the chicken breast in little pieces.

2- Add salt, ground garlic, parsley, thyme, rosemary over the chicken and mix well.

3- Fry the chicken until it is half done.

4- Clean the mushrooms with a paper and cut into slices.

5- Peel and cut the pears into little pieces.

6- Add all the ingredients in the pan with the chicken, cook at low heat until all the ingredients are well done.

7- While the mixture is hot, put some of the filling on every lettuce leave.

8- Put some cheese over the filling, the cheese will melt thanks to the heat of the chicken.

Eat while it is still hot.

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