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Recipes with salted dried beef

3 recipes that use salted dried beef, with photos, step-by-step instructions and cook times. The quickest, Pisillo llanero, takes 90 minutes. It is most often cooked with cumin, garlic and onion.

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Sopa de guandú con carne saladaPigeon pea soup with salted beef

On Colombia's Caribbean coast, and above all in Barranquilla around Carnival and Holy Week, families cook big pots of sopa de guandú, a hearty soup of pigeon peas and salted dried beef with yam, yuca and green plantain, flavoured with cumin, garlic and spring onion. It is eaten as a full meal with white rice, avocado and a little hot sauce, ideal to recover after the parades. The common mistake is not soaking the salted beef, which makes the whole pot far too salty. Chef's tip: grate a little of the green plantain into the broth; it thickens the soup naturally.

150 minColombianSoupsGluten free
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Tapado olanchanoSalted beef and root vegetable stew

Cattle country in Olancho, eastern Honduras, gives its name to this big Sunday pot of salted beef, pork ribs, plantain, cassava, taro and vegetables, cooked slowly in one broth and eaten with corn tortillas and a hot sauce on the side. It is a filling, gently smoky stew where every root takes on the salty, meaty flavour of the beef. The pork is pork spare ribs; cook them until they pull away from the bone. The mistake to avoid is skipping the soak: salted beef straight from the packet makes the whole pot too salty to eat. Chef's tip: add the roots in order of hardness, cassava first and ripe plantain last, so everything is tender at the same moment.

180 minCentral AmericanMeatGluten free
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Pisillo llaneroShredded salted beef

Cattle country cooks in Apure and Barinas turn salted dried beef into pisillo: desalted, boiled, pounded into fine threads and fried with onion, ají dulce and garlic until almost dry and lightly crisp. It's eaten at lunch with white rice, black beans, fried ripe plantain and an arepa, the plate the llaneros call their own. The common mistake is not soaking the beef long enough, so it comes out too salty. Chef's tip: taste a strand after boiling; if it is still salty, simmer it in fresh water for another 10 minutes.

90 minVenezuelanMeatGluten free
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Goes well with salted dried beef