Cozido à Portuguesa

Ingredients

• 500g pork ribs
• 500g beef shin or brisket
• 1 pork trotter or ear (optional, for richness)
• 1 chorizo or chouriço sausage
• 1 morcela (blood sausage, optional)
• 1 piece smoked bacon, 200g
• 1/2 head cabbage, cut into wedges
• 4 carrots, peeled and halved
• 4 potatoes, peeled and halved
• 2 turnips, peeled and halved
• 1 onion, whole
• 2 bay leaves
• Salt and black pepper, to taste
• Rice, to serve

Before you cook

• Trim excess fat from the pork ribs and beef if needed.
• Peel and halve the carrots, potatoes and turnips.
• Cut the cabbage into wedges.

Steps

1. Put the pork ribs, beef, trotter if using, whole onion and bay leaves into a large pot and cover with water.
2. Bring to a boil, skim off the foam, then reduce the heat and simmer for 1.5 hours until the meats start to turn tender.
3. Add the bacon and chorizo and simmer for 30 more minutes.
4. Add the carrots and turnips and simmer for 20 minutes.
5. Add the potatoes and morcela if using, and simmer for 15 minutes.
6. Add the cabbage wedges and simmer for 10 more minutes until all the vegetables are tender.
7. Taste the broth and season with salt and pepper.
8. Lift the meats out onto one platter and slice the sausages.
9. Arrange the vegetables on a second platter.
10. Ladle some of the cooking broth over plain boiled rice to serve as a first course, then serve the meats and vegetables together afterward.