Locro

Ingredients

• 600 gHominy, canned, white
• 400 gBeans, pinto, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt
• 600 gPumpkin, raw
• 500 gBeef, flank, steak, separable lean only, trimmed to 0" fat, choice, raw
• 150 gOnions, raw
• 900 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
• 2 gSalt, table

Method

1. Cut 500 g beef and 600 g pumpkin into 2 cm cubes and chop 150 g onion. Drain 600 g canned white hominy in a sieve and rinse; the canning liquid is not used.
2. Bring the meat and 900 g water to the boil, skim and simmer uncovered for 45 minutes at 95 °C.
3. Add the pumpkin, onion and 2 g salt and simmer uncovered for 30 minutes at 90 °C until the pumpkin starts to break down.
4. Stir in the drained hominy and 400 g cooked beans and simmer for 15 minutes at 90 °C, stirring occasionally. The hominy is already cooked and only needs to heat through and absorb flavour.
5. Mash some of the pumpkin into the stew, rest for 5 minutes and divide into six servings.