Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cozido à portuguesa (mixed meat stew). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Cozido à Portuguesa (Mixed Meat Stew) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Cozido à Portuguesa (Mixed Meat Stew) is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have cozido à portuguesa (mixed meat stew) using 12 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cozido à Portuguesa (Mixed Meat Stew):
- Get 100 grams Black pudding
- Make ready 150 grams Chorizo
- Take 400 grams Chicken pieces
- Prepare 800 grams Any pork meat pieces.
- Take 1 liter water
- Get Salt
- Make ready 3 carrots
- Prepare 500 grams cabbage
- Prepare 2 potatoes
- Take 100 grams green beans
- Prepare 400 grams Tinned chick peas
- Get A small amount of beef meat can also be added.
Instructions to make Cozido à Portuguesa (Mixed Meat Stew):
- Salt the meat a few hours before cooking
- Place all the meat pieces, including the chorizo and black pudding in a pressure cooker with the water. And pressure cook for about 40 minutes.
- [[ You can cook it in a normal pan but it'll take closer to 1 hour and 40 minutes to cook ]]
- In the mean time prepare the rest of the ingredients to go in later.
- Cut the cabbage in half and remove the storks and wash in cold water.
- Peel the potatoes and carrots and cut in half. Lastly prepare the green beans.
- Once you able to open the pressure cooker, remove the meat and transfer the cooked water into another large pan and cook on high.
- Transfer the meat back to the pressure cooker and seal to keep it warm.
- Add the cabbage to the boiling water. You will not be able to stir this whilst its cooking.
- Then add the potatoes, beans and carrots.
- Lastly add the can of chick peas including it's water.
- Cook on high for 30-40 minutes.
- Add boiling water from the kettle if it starts to dry but do not stir.
- Once cooked serve along the meat platter.
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