Old Indian Recipe

Ingredients to make Old Indian:

• For the meat:
• 2 pounds of beef shank or chicken shank
• 1 onion
• 1 bell pepper
• ½ head of garlic
• Salt
• For the mass:
• 8 ounces corn dough or 10 tortilla chips
• ½ tablespoon of oil
• 1 onion
• ½ head of garlic
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1 pinch of cumin
• sour orange juice
• 5 bunches of mint
• 3 tomatoes
• To fry the meat:
• ½ cup of lard
• 2 large onions chopped
• 2 large chopped bell peppers
• For the Creole sauce:
• 1 teaspoon of oil
• 2 sliced ​​tomatoes
• 2 medium onions sliced
• 3 tablespoons tomato sauce
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• ½ cup of water
• Salt
• pepper-to-taste

How to make Old Indian:

1. Boil the meat with the onion, chiltoma, garlic and salt with enough water until it softens.
2. Remove the meat and shred it (shred it), finely.
3. Strain the broth and save it for later use in the preparation of the old Indian.
4. If you have a tortilla, break it into pieces and soak them for an hour with part of the broth or if you have flour, knead it with a little broth, to the dough that you obtained, either tortilla or flour, add, in a blended form, the onion, chiltoma, garlic, pepper, cumin, tomato and achiote.
5. Add more broth until it is like a thick porridge.
6. Fry in the lard, the chopped onion and chiltoma together with the shredded meat.
7. When it is a little fried, add the atoll of the dough and continue cooking, moving continuously for about 15 minutes so that it does not stick or until it takes on a golden appearance.
8. Finally, add 5 branches of mint, sour orange juice to taste.
9. Season with salt to taste and if it is too dry, add broth, serve with Creole sauce and put on top of the old Indian when serving.
10. Procedure for Creole sauce: Fry the sliced ​​onion and tomatoes in oil, then add the other ingredients and leave it for a moment to taste.