Pique Macho

Name: Pique Macho
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h 15 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: 2 red or yellow peppers; 400 g sausages; 500 g stewing steak; 1 stock cube; ½ a bottle of local ale; 4 portions of chips or fries; 6 eggs; 1-2 fresh chillies (or 3 tsp hot chilli powder); 2 cloves of garlic; 400 g fresh or tinned chopped tomatoes; Mayonnaise; Pinch of salt and pepper; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 3 medium onions

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
3 hr 30

Appears in

For the Love of the Land

By Jenny Jefferies

Published 2020

About

This is not your average farmer’s dish, but the name translates roughly as food of the strong, so I think it fits farm life pretty well. We stumbled across it in Bolivia; in my terrible Spanish I managed to ask for a taste and we have been hooked ever since! – Richard Heady

Ingredients

500 g stewing steak
400 g sausages
3 medium onions<

Main course

Method

Dice the stewing steak and slice the sausages into bite-size pieces. Brown the meat in a hot frying pan. Meanwhile, peel and dice the onion and garlic. Deseed and chop the peppers, then do the same with the fresh chillies, if using.

Add the onion, garlic and peppers to the pan and cook until softened. Then transfer the meat and vegetables to a casserole dish and add the chilli, stock cu