Christmas Soup Recipes

Ingredients for 8-10 people

Meat and bones: 500gr morcillo, a ham bone, 1 bone of knee, 1 bone of spine of pork, 1/2 chicken, 1 piece of veal skirt

Vegetables: leek, a potato, 1 turnip, 2 carrots, 1/2 cabbage, 1 onion, and optionally a handful of dehydrated vegetables

To serve: boiled egg, diced ham, cooked chicken breast or bread croutons

How to make a Christmas soup

The process starts preparing a broth, making Cook the bones of ham and beef, veal, chicken and vegetables in 3 liters of cold water. At the beginning, to help achieve temperature, we can do it with the starting pan lid but as soon as it starts to boil, we descend the fire and we will remove the lid to the pan.

It is important to cook the broth simmer very, just on the boundary of cooking to a boil without making many spurting. In this way the stock will not be murky but transparent. Initially, the bones and the meat will release their foams and impurities that we will be withdrawing with a saucepan.

The total cooking time is similar to stew or other wines from meat, around two hours doing it very slowly. I do not recommend do so in this case in the pot because it is express much more turbid and then you'll have to clarify it.

When broth is finished, and all the meat has stopped its taste in water, remove solid ingredients and strain the broth with a cheesecloth or a fine sieve so that you do not pass any impurity. We then degrease him leaving to cool to remove the layer of fat that will solidify on the surface.

Then we reduce the broth in a saucepan so that you consume until it is in the middle of its volume, being now ready to taste. That's when we tested it, and salt, to taste since if we will miss it at the beginning, to reduce the stock it would be salty.

Processing time | 3 hours
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Tasting
This recipe for Christmas soup is usually served in Cup with two handles, accompanied by chopped ham or croutons of fried bread that is served to each diner's taste. It is also traditional flavoured with a dash of sherry wine or add a raw egg yolk.