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Taos hotpot

This hotpot inspired by a stay in Taos (New Mexico) is a mix of different meat and vegetables cooked long and slow, served with polenta.

The preparation is rather long, as is the cooking time, but it reheats very well.

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Last modified on: January 10^th 2018

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For 30 people, you will need:

1 3 leeks
2 3 onions
3 900 g turnip
4 900 g potatoes
5 1 kg 500 g potimarron (Japanese chestnut pumpkin)
6 1 kg 200 g beef
7 1 kg 200 g chicken breast
8 12 tablespoons oil
9 12 tablespoons oil
10 12 tablespoons chilli spices
11 6 kgs water
12 210 g tomato paste
13 6 beefs stock cube
14 2 kgs 400 g Polenta
15 salt
16 pepper
Total weight: 15,945 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
52 min.	2 hours 22 min.	3 hours 14 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 15 min.

Prepare and finely chop 3 leeks.

Prepare and finely chop 3 onions.

Set aside.

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Peel 900 g turnip, rinse and cut into chunks.

Peel 900 g potatoes, rinse and cut into chunks.

Set aside.

Stage 3 - 8 min.

Prepare 1 kg 500 g potimarron (Japanese chestnut pumpkin) and cut into chunks.

Set aside.

Stage 4 - 7 min.

Cut 1 kg 200 g beef and 1 kg 200 g chicken breast into fairly large dice.

Stage 5 - 12 min.

Pour 12 tablespoons oil into a large casserole or stewpot on high heat.

When really hot, fry the meat rapidly until browned, starting with the chicken, then the beef.

Stage 6

Set aside the meat.

Stage 7 - 2 min.

Add 12 tablespoons oil to the pan and when hot, add the chopped onion.

Cook for 2 minutes, stirring frequently.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

Tip in all the vegetables and meats, add 12 tablespoons chilli spices, salt and pepper, then stir well.

Cook for 2 or 3 minutes like this, stirring frequently.

Stage 9 - 2 min.

Add 6 kgs water, 210 g tomato paste and 6 beefs stock cube, and mix these in.

Stage 10 - 5 min.

Bring to the boil.

Stage 11 - 2 hours

Cover, turn the heat down to its lowest and leave to cook for at least 2 hours.

Stage 12 - 10 min.

Shortly before serving, prepare 2 kgs 400 g Polenta.

Stage 13

Bring both the hotpot and the polenta pan straight to the table, so that everyone can help themselves to polenta first, then spoon the vegetables, meat and cooking juices on top.

Remarks

Taos hotpot, like any slow-cooked dish, can be reheated and served again several times - it just gets better every time. As the quantities are mostly for guidance, do adapt it to suit whatever vegetables or meat you have handy.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge in a sealed container. Freezes very well.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
12,930 Kcal or 54,135 Kj	2,194 gr	2,580 gr	3,422 gr
646 %	844 %	243 %	519 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
81 Kcal or 339 Kj	14 gr	16 gr	21 gr
4 %	5 %	2 %	3 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
431 Kcal or 1,805 Kj	73 gr	86 gr	114 gr
22 %	28 %	8 %	17 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Gluten

How much will it cost?

For 30 people : 56.72 $
Per person : 1.89 $

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cheese tart, Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants), French Family Cake, Mustard baps, Du Barry soup, ... All
	Polenta: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rata-tart, Curried polenta, Polenta with spinach and soft-poached egg, Firied fillet of sea bream with polenta, Polenta with Mont d'Or, ... All
	Potimarron (Japanese chestnut pumpkin): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Potimarron (Japanese chestnut pumpkin) purée, How to prepare a pumpkin (or potimarron), Stuffed pumpkin gratin, Potimarron braised in meat jus, Pumpkin and red-bean tortillas, ... All
	Beef : You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: How to cook red meat properly, How to slow cook meat, Roast beef "like they do it in Santa Fe", Home-made doner kebab, Carbonnade, ... All

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