Puchero

Name: Puchero (Boiled Beef)
Ingredients: 3 lb. joint beef—Chuck Steak, Silverside or Brisket; 1½½ to 2 lb. potatoes, peeled and chopped; 1 lb. vegetable marrow, peeled, de-seeded and chopped; 4 carrots, peeled and thickly sliced; 1 tomato, peeled and chopped; ½ lb. black pudding, thickly sliced; 2 or 3 corn on the cob, chopped; ¾ lb. lean bacon joint; 1 cabbage, quartered; 1 green pepper, chopped; 1 onion, chopped; 2 leeks, trimmed and thickly sliced; Salt and pepper; 2 small turnips, peeled and chopped; ½ lb. chick peas*, previously soaked in water; 1 lb. sweet potato, peeled and chopped

Boiled Beef

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

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Cooking Price-Wise

By Vincent Price

Published 2017

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Ingredients

Puchero

3 lb. joint beef—Chuck Steak, Silverside or Brisket
4 carrots, peeled and thickly sliced

Main course

Method

Half fill a large saucepan with water, add salt (2 teaspoons to 2 pints water) and bring to the boil. Tie beef neatly, place in the water, cover and simmer gently for 30 minutes. Add the carrots, leeks, turnips, corn, pepper, onion and tomato and continue simmering for 1 hour. Add potatoes and cook gently for a further 20 to 30 minutes when beef will be tender.

Meanwhile, place prepared