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Simple Pork Menudo


So simple that this dish can be aced by first time cooks and can be whipped by experts even with eyes closed!



This savory and delicious combination of pork, potatoes carrots in tomato sauce is alway an extra rice magnet. Much more so if I drizzle hot sauce on it.

No need for fancy ingredients to give its Spanish origins a gastronomic salute but just in its simplest form, it could already be a hunger satisfier.

Now let's begin...



INGREDIENTS
  • 1/2 kilo pork,cubed
  • 2 potatoes, diced
  • 1 carrot, diced
  • 3 pieces hotdogs, sliced half an inch
  • 1 green bellpepper, sliced
  • 1 red bellpepper, sliced
  • 1 cup tomato sauce, adjustable
  • 5 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • Oil
  • 1 cup pork stock (or 1 cup hot water with 1 boullion cube, adjustable, optional)
  • Salt and pepper to taste

HOW TO COOK
  1. In a pan, place oil then sauté the garlic and onions.
  2. Add the pork and hotdogs then stir fry.
  3. Add tomato sauce and pork stock simmer for 10 minutes.
  4. Add the carrots then simmer for 5 minutes or until tender.
  5. Add potatoes then simmer for another 5 minutes or until tender.
  6. Season with salt and pepper. Make final taste adjustments
  7. Serve with rice. (I love drizzling it with hot sauce too!) 🌶🌶🌶

The measurement are just guides in this recipe for in the actual cooking just make proportions of what are available. 



One may also use tomato paste or puree. To have it thicker, just add flour or cornstarch and adjust. 

Another version at home is without the tomato sauce, we just use bread crumbs. Check out PORK SARCIADO.

This recipe is also good for chicken, beef and liver (pork or beef). You can also add green peas for visual and texture enhancements. 

Just widen you gastronomic imagination and tweak as you like! Enjoy!

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