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Judd mat Gaardebounen

Smoked pork collar, soaked and boiled, with broad beans in a cream sauce. Luxembourg's national dish.

4 servings · 140 minutes (estimated)

Judd mat Gaardebounen
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Ingredients

Quantities for 4 servings.

  • 1 kg Smoked pork collar
  • 1 kg Broad beans, in the pod
  • 150 g Smoked bacon, diced
  • 1 piece Onion
  • 200 ml Cream
  • 2 tbsp Flour
  • 2 sprig Savory
  • 800 g Potatoes, to serve
  • 2 piece Bay leaves
  • to taste Salt and pepper

Method

  1. Soak the meat in cold water for four hours, changing the water twice.
  2. Cover it with fresh water, bring it up, boil ten minutes and drain.
  3. Cover it again, add the bay leaves and simmer an hour and twenty, until tender. Keep the broth.
  4. Pod the beans, scald them for a minute and slip the skin off each one.
  5. Render the bacon, fry the onion in its fat, stir in the flour and cook two minutes.
  6. Add two ladles of the broth and the cream, then the savory and the beans, and stew ten minutes.
  7. Cut the meat into thick slices and serve with the beans and boiled potatoes.
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