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Seco de carne
( Meat stew with coriander )
4 servings
By Don Cucho
Pantagruel Restaurant Chef

Marinate:

  • 1 kg. beef meat (breast)
  • ¾ lt. chicha de jora or beer
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 ½ tablespoons blended yellow hot pepper.
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon cumin seed
  • Salt.

Seasoning:

  • 1 kg.onion
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 teaspoon " panca " hot pepper
  • 2 cups coriander leaves

Accompaniment:

  • Lima beans or mashed potato.
  • White rice with peas

Preparation:

  • Remove fat from meat and cut it in 4 equal pieces. In a bowl, put meat and pour chicha or beer. Then spread meat with yellow hot pepper and season it with salt, pepper, cumin seeds and garlic. Leave it soak. It is better to leave it from one day to the other and refrigerated.
  • Prepare a seasoning with finely chopped onion. The quantity and the cut are important because it is the onion which is going to give flavor and consistency to this tasty preparation.
  • Add garlic," panca"hot pepper and coriander. Leave it cook and place meat pieces with the marinate liquid. Cook it at low heat with the lid on.
  • This stew should have a heavy sauce, tasting the salt, so that, when it evaporates it does not vanish.
  • 20 minutes before, remove the preparation from heat, add the fresh lima beans which will cook there. When it is ready, let it rest for 15 minutes and serve it with rice, peas and red pepper.


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