🇪🇸 How to Make Cocido Madrileño

Craving Cocido Madrileño? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Cocido Madrileño at home, in about 3 hrs, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 300g dried chickpeas, soaked overnight
• 300g beef shin
• 1 chicken quarter
• 100g smoked pork belly
• 1 chorizo
• 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 2 potatoes
• ¼ cabbage, shredded
• 100g small pasta (for the soup course)

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Put the drained chickpeas, beef, chicken and pork in a big pot, cover with cold water, bring to the boil and skim.
2. Simmer 2 hrs, topping up with hot water — cold water toughens the chickpeas.
3. Add the root vegetables and chorizo, cook 30 min more, then the potatoes for the last 20.
4. Fry the cabbage separately in a little garlic and oil so it keeps its texture.
5. Strain off a good ladleful of broth per person and cook the pasta in it. That soup is course one.
6. Course two is everything else, piled on a platter. This is one dish pretending to be a full meal, which it is.