Quick Country Style Stew
Jorge: This Ajiaco recipe is quicker and easier to prepare.
Raúl: The secret to speeding up the whole process is a pressure cooker.
Jorge: Every Cuban abuela has a pressure cooker and a rice cooker in her kitchen!
- 1 to 2 pounds beef cut in small squares
- 2 potatoes
- 3 malangas
- 3 ripe plantains
- 1 sweet potato or yam
- 1 can tomato puree
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cube beef boullion, broken up
- 1 cube (or equivalent) ham boullion
- 1/4 cup of vegetable oil
- 2 potatoes
In your pressure cooker, sauté the beef in the oil with the salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder, for about 5 minutes, turning so the beef won't burn.
Take it off the stove and add the ham bouillon, beef bouillon, tomato puree, potatoes, yams, malangas, and plantains.
Fill the pressure cooker with water to full mark as indicated. Put the lid on and let it cook (following pressure cooker manufacturer's instructions) for about 20 minutes.
Contributed by Juneisy Quitnana, Hialeah, FL
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