Hive Top Chef! || Favorite Traditional Food: Hallaca Venezolan by @janettyanez

about 3 years ago

This is my entry to this week's @qurator initiative, where the proposal is the realization of the "Favorite Traditional Dish" whose call publication can be reviewed in the following link:

Qurator's: Hive Top Chef! | Favorite Traditional Food

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One of Venezuela's traditional silvers is "La Hallaca", its origin comes from the time of slaves.

This dish was created by the exclavos with the remains of food they left behind.
In this publication I briefly tell you how this complicated but delicious Christmas dish is made.

Ingredients

Meat Stew: 1 kg beef, 1 kg chicken, 1 kg of suckling pig.
Onion, Green Pimenton, Garlic, Onion, Garlic. Pickle, Capers, Olives, Prune Raisins. Onoto, oil, salt, spices. Potatos.
Maiz dough: 2 kg Corn flour.
Leaves of Platano e Hilo or Pabilo.

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Step 1:

The first thing that is done is the Meat Stew, which takes place a day before the preparation of the Hallacas.
For stew, meat, chicken and suckling pig are cut into small square pieces.
Then the onion, pepper, pickles and capers are cut into very small pieces.

First the onion is sautéed with the rest of the vegetables including the garlic, all this in a little edible oil, then the meat and suckling pig are added.
They are mixed and water is added, for cooking.
Then the pickle and capers are added; it is incorporated onoto and simmered, stirring in short periods.
A few minutes before cooking, red wine and a cup of water with 2 tablespoons dissolved cornmeal are added.

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Step 2:

The next day the preparation of the Hallacas begins, cleaning the banana leaves, then salts the potatoes and chops the pimenton and onion into long, very thin pieces.

The Corn Flour is amazed with chicken broth and meat, adding oot for the color.

Platanos leaves are selected and washed.

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Step: 3

The assembly of the hallacas begins, spreading the very thin corn dough on the Platano leaf previously hunted with oil and onoto.

Add stew, paprika and finely chopped onion, olives and raisins.
Then close the hallaca and tie it with the thread to finally place it in pre-hot water with salt.