Cooking Recipe Caldo Gallego
Recipe Ingredients
1 lb
Medium sized white beans
2 1/2 qt
Water
1/2 lb
Salt pork,cubed
1 ea
Meaty ham bone or smoked
-pork hock
6 sm
White potatoes, peeled and
-diced
1 bn
Collards, mustard greens or
-spinach
4 ea
Spanish sausages [chorizos]
Salt if needed
PREPARATION
1 ea
Rinse beans, cover with 6
-cups of water in a large
Kettle, soak overnight.
2 ea
When ready to cook , add
-additional 1 quart water
, the salt pork and ham bone
3 ea
Bring to a boil. Cover,
-reduce heat and simmer
Directions
about 2 1/2 hours or until beans are tender. 4. Add potatoes and
collards or mustard greens [If using spinach add later with the
chorizos]. Simmer 20 minutes. 5. Cut chorizos in 1-inch pieces. Add
to beans and cook 10 min longer. Taste and add salt if necessary [ I
doubt it]. If too salty, add additional water. 6. Remove ham bone.
Cut off meat and return meat to stew. Serve in soup bowls. Caldo
Gallego