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Meat in juice "Carne en su jugo"

Author: Oscar Moreno

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Beef fillet
  • 1/2 kg Peruvian beans*(previously cooked)
  • 1/4 Bacon
  • 3 Bunches of Cambray onions**
  • 1 Bunch of epazote
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  • 1) Chop up the bacon.
    2) Heat a saucepan.
    3) Fry the bacon.
    4) Add the previously washed onions.
    5) Separate.
    6) Cut the meat into cubes.
    7) Pour into the saucepan and salt and pepper.
    8) Once the meat is sealed, pour the previously cooked beans.
    9) Chop the epazote.
    10) Add the bacon, Cambray onions and epazote. Mixture.
    11) Let cook 10 minutes.
     
    * Peruvian beans: yellow in color, smooth texture. Also known as mayocoba or butter beans.
    ** Cambray onion: small onion with a long green stem. Usually about 4-5 cm in diameter.
     
    For sauce:
    250 grs Green Tomato ***
    1 white onion
    1 avocado
    Cilantro
    1 lemon
    4 Arbol chiles
    Salt
     
    1) Wash the ingredients.
    2) Chop the green tomato, onion and avocado.
    3) Blend all the ingredients.
    4) Serve to taste over the stew.
    *** Green tomato, tomatillo, corn, husk or miltomate tomato. Acid and lemony flavor, not to be confused with "unripe" tomato.
    Approximate duration of preparation: 1 hour 30 minutes