Brazilian Black Bean Stew

Total Time: 10 hrs 1 min Preparation Time: 10 hrs Cook Time: 1 min

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 250 g black beans, soaked for 8-12 hours
• 1 large carrot, diced
• 1 large tomato, skinned and chopped
• 1 large onion, roughly chopped
• 6 garlic cloves, chopped
• 100 g chorizo sausage, sliced
• 100 g smoked bacon, diced
• 2 lamb chops, cut into bitesize pieces
• 3 lamb chops, trimmed
• 2 bay leaves
• 6 allspice berries
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 ancho chili, soaked for 30 minutes and skin removed
• 3 sprigs parsley

Recipe

• 1 soak the beans in your finest water for 8 hours or overnight, then rinse and put to the boil in fresh water.
• 2 skim of foam once it rises.
• 3 meanwhile cut your meat and vegatables.
• 4 fry the bacon until it renders its fat and crisps.
• 5 add to the beans.
• 6 then fry the chorizo and add to the stew.
• 7 in the same fat still fry the lamb and lamb and add to the stew.
• 8 quickly fry the onion and garlic and add to the stew as you go.
• 9 then add the carrot, tomato and spices.
• 10 simmer the stew quietly for 1 and 1/2 hours.
• 11 then serve sprinking parsley on top, yummy!