Soups & creams
Wheat Cuchuco with Pork Spine
Thick Boyacá-style wheat soup with pork and vegetables.
Ingredients
- 250 g cracked wheat (cuchuco)
- 500 g pork spine ribs
- 2 criolla potatoes
- 2 pastusa potatoes
- 100 g peas
- 100 g fava beans
- 1 scallion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 bunch cilantro
- 2 liters water
- Salt and cumin to taste
Step-by-step
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- Chop the scallion and garlic: 4 sec/speed 5 and sauté: 5 min/Varoma/speed 1.
- Add the water, pork ribs and cracked wheat: 45 min/100°C/reverse/spoon speed.
- Add the potatoes, peas and fava beans: 25 min/100°C/reverse/spoon speed.
- Add the cilantro, salt and cumin: 5 min/100°C/reverse/spoon speed.
- Serve piping hot.
Tips
- Cracked wheat naturally thickens the soup.
- This is a typical farmhouse dish from Boyacá.
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