World Flavors Cookbook

Puchero

Name: Puchero
Cook time: 90 min
Cuisine: Paraguay
Ingredients: 1.5kg beef cuts (with bones), 3 potatoes, 2 sweet potatoes, 1/2 squash, 2 carrots, 1 cabbage, 2 ears of corn

A monumental boiled dinner consisting of large cuts of beef, marrow bones, and every vegetable imaginable.

Cuisine: Paraguay

Ingredients

1.5kg beef cuts (with bones), 3 potatoes, 2 sweet potatoes, 1/2 squash, 2 carrots, 1 cabbage, 2 ears of corn

Instructions

1. Boil meat and bones in a very large pot of salted water. 2. Skim off the foam. 3. Add vegetables in order of cooking time (carrots/corn first, then potatoes, then squash/cabbage). 4. Serve the broth as a first course (sopa), then the meat and vegetables as the main course.