Portuguese Stew

In Portuguese: Cozido À Portuguesa⁽¹⁾

Ingredients:

• 750 g beef
• 1/2 a chicken
• 1/2 a pig’s trotter
• 1/2 kg fresh pork ribs
• 200 g bacon
• 1 sausage
• 1 black-pudding sausage
• 1 «morcela» sausage
• 4 thin sausages «salsichas»
• 1 «farinheira» (a variety of pork-sausage made with maizeflour)
• 1 small spring cabbage
• 1 small garden cabbage
• 4 carrots
• 2 turnips
• 4 potatoes
• 3 dl white beans (boiled)
• 250 g of rice

Directions:

In a large pot boil the beef, the half-trotter, the ribs, the bacon and the sausage.
When all these are nearly boiled, add the chicken, the black-pudding sausage, the «morcela», the «farinheira» and the «salsichas».
As soon as all these are boiled, take them all out, place them in a deep dish and put aside.
Take out sufficient broth to boil the rice (the liquid should be twice the volume of the rice) put in a pan and boil.
Put the large pot on the fire again (add some water if necessary), and boil the carrots (cut in half), the turnips (quartered), the cabbages (separate their leaves) and finally the potatoes.
Just before they have finished boiling, taste and rectify the salt, if necessary.
In a pan, with some of the broth where the meats were cooked, warm up the already boiled beans.
Put the meats into the large pot again just to heat them up.
Remove and cut them all in slices.
On a dish, place the rice in the center, ornament with slices of the sausages and place the cabbages all around.
On another dish, place the beans in the centre, and around small heaps of cabage, turnips, carrots and potatoes, to close the circle.

Bom Apetite !!