How long to cook ajiako soup?

To cook ajiaco, you need to spend 2 hours in the kitchen, of which cooking is 1,5 hours.

How to make Ajiaco soup

Products

Water – 2,5 liters

Veal – 300 grams

Corn – 2 beginnings

Sweet boiling potatoes – 7 pieces of medium size

Avocado – 1 piece

Onions – 1 large head

Capers – 50 grams

Oregano – 30 grams

Dill – 20 grams

How to make Ajiaco soup

1. Place the veal in a saucepan and cover with water.

2. Put a saucepan with meat on high heat, bring to a boil, reduce heat and remove foam.

3. Salt the broth, put the peeled onion into it.

4. Cover the pan with a lid and cook over low heat for 1 hour.

5. Remove the meat from the broth, cool slightly, chop and return to the saucepan.

6. Peel and wash the potatoes; Grate 2 potatoes on a coarse grater (to thicken the soup), cut the rest into 1,5-2 centimeters cubes.

7. Put the potatoes in the broth, add the oregano.

8. Peel the ears of corn from leaves, wash and cut into circles of 2-3 centimeters.

9. Put the corn in the broth.

10. Cook ajiaco for 20 minutes.

11. Wash the dill, dry it and chop finely.

12. Wash the avocado, peel it, cut it in half, separate the halves and remove the pit.

13. Cut the avocado into large slices.

14. Pour the soup into bowls, each with a little dill and capers and a handful of avocado slices.

Delicious facts

– Ajiaco – Colombian soup based on boiling potatoes with meat and coarsely chopped corn cobs. As meat, you can use chicken, veal, veal ribs.

– In Russian conditions, when corn is widely available only in the summer season, it is allowed to use frozen cobs or corn kernels when cooking ajiaco.

– Guasco greens are almost impossible to find in Russian stores, so it is customary to replace it with oregano.

– Serve Ajiaco with sour cream, capers, fresh chopped vegetables (avocado) and herbs.

– The name “achiako” comes from the word “ahi” (“pepper”) in the language of the South American Indians, and pepper is not added to the akiako.

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