Recipe of Original Cooked with Mercian balls
Ingredients to make Original Cooked with Mercian balls:
- Half a kilo of green beans
- A piece of pumpkin totanera
- Half a turkey weighing about a kilo
- A knuckle of veal
- One hundred grams of lean bacon
- A sausage
- A kilo of small potatoes
- Celery
- Thistle
- Salt
- Saffron
- a kilo of chickpeas
- (For the meatballs, which they call balls around here)
- One hundred grams of bacon
- three eggs
- Pinions
- One hundred grams of pork
- Pepper
- A turkey liver
- Garlic
- A piece of fresh bread
- Parsley
How to make Original Mercian Cooked with balls:
1
They have to put in a saucepan, with about three liters of water, the chickpeas, the knuckle, the turkey, the bacon and a little salt.
2
Letting it cook over low heat for about an hour.
3
Then, they add the green beans, the celery, the thistle, and half an hour later, the potatoes, the chorizo, the pumpkin and a little saffron.
4
Ten minutes later, you go throwing the balls, being careful not to break them, and let everything cook until the potatoes are ready.
5
They take out the broth, and put it in a separate saucepan, add two cloves of garlic and a sprig of parsley, all finely chopped.
6
They let it cook for about five minutes, and they add a hundred grams of fine noodles, broken by hand, and let it cook for about six or seven minutes, serving it before cooking.
7
Although you already know that the soup fills you up a lot, and maybe you can’t later with the stew, which isn’t exactly fainting.
8
So, what they can do is serve the broth without noodles, in a cup called broth, and pour a ball into it, and if they are very gourmet, a splash of sherry.
9
To make the balls, chop the lean bacon, the pork, the liver, the white, and the turkey, all finely chopped, with a razor or a blade. Add very finely chopped garlic and parsley, and the three eggs, mixing it all up.
10
They add the breadcrumbs, soaked in milk, the pine nuts, a little pepper and salt.
11
Everything is kneaded, and the balls are made, not very thick because they already know that afterwards, they fluff up a lot.
