Caraotas

Ingredients

• 1 Smoked Ham Hock
• ½ Kg black beans
• 2 yellow onion
• 1 green pepper
• 1 red pepper
• ½ head garlic
• 1.5 litre lamb stock

Recipe

• Soak beans overnight. Once beans are soft enough, drain water. 
• Make the sofrito: Dice onions, peppers, garlic. 
• Cut most of the meat off the ham hock into 2 cm squares. Fry these squares in a large pan and render the fat.
• Once brown, remove the meat and fry the onions and peppers, when they begin to soften, add garlic until brown. Add cooking oil or butter if necessary. 
• Place sofrito, ham meat, and beans in a large pot. Add ham hock bone. Add Lamb stock until all is covered and bring to boil.
• Once boiling, reduce to simmer for about 2 hours, stir every 15 minutes or so.
• Add pepper to taste, should not need salt. Top off with lamb stock as necessary.