Jota

Ingredients

Quantities for 6 servings.

• 600 g Soured turnip or sauerkraut
• 300 g Beans, soaked overnight
• 500 g Potatoes
• 400 g Smoked pork ribs
• 200 g Smoked sausage
• 1 piece Onion
• 4 clove Garlic
• 2 piece Bay leaf
• 40 ml Vegetable oil
• to taste Salt and pepper

Method

1. Boil the soaked beans in a separate pot until soft, an hour. Keep the water.
2. Simmer the smoked ribs in a litre and a half of water for forty minutes with the bay.
3. Add the soured turnip or sauerkraut with some of its brine and cook twenty minutes.
4. Add the diced potato and sausage and cook twenty minutes more.
5. Fry the onion and garlic in oil until golden and stir them into the soup.
6. Add the beans with their water, mash some of the potato in the pot and cook five minutes.
7. Strip the meat from the bones, return it to the soup and season with salt and pepper.