Authentic Pepper Pot Soup

The authentic version uses tripe. I have never cared for tripe, myself, and I have always substituted chicken, beef, turkey, sausage or even ham instead.

Step: 1

Place the tripe or other meat that you have selected to use in a saucepan, and cover with water. Bring to a boil, and turn off the heat. Allow the meat to cool a bit in the water, and then drain and rinse. Cut into 1/4 inch pieces.

Step: 2

In a large heavy kettle, saute the bacon until clear. Add the onion, celery, leeks, parsley, and green peppers; saute until tender.

Step: 3

Stir in beef stock, thyme, marjoram, cloves, red pepper flakes, bay leaf, and black pepper. Bring the kettle to a boil, and turn down to a simmer. Cook, covered, until meat is very tender, about 2 hours.

Step: 4

Add the diced potato and carrots, and cook for an additional 20 minutes.

Step: 5

Prepare the roux by stirring the flour into the melted butter or margarine, and cooking for a moment on the stove. When the soup is done to your liking, stir in the roux. Simmer, stirring all the while, until the soup thickens a bit. Correct the seasonings.

Per Serving: 216 calories; protein 9.4g; carbohydrates 18.3g; fat 11.7g; cholesterol 49.2mg; sodium 256.7mg.

The word “stew” can refer to 2 time a food and a cooking method. Stewing involves not fast cooking chunks of meat, raw fruit or beans in a tastefull liquid . It’s same as to braising, but it does have a few piece of differences. The raw animal vested is chopped into few of pieces instead of being cooked whole , and the liquid completely covers the contents in a stew as different to a braise’s halfway full . When meat or vegetables are cooked using this method, the resulting dish is called stew.

Stew has a perception for being a rib-sticking eating process that warms you up on a cold , winter day. It’s right that ; a bowl of old menu of beef stew does have warming featured food , but stew’s comfort factor more than a way beyond preserving you from the chill . It’s all about those tender chunks of food and vegetables, swimming in a thick, ultra-rich gravy. The way they come together creates the ultimate comfort food, no matter the weather.