How to Make Perfect Rancho A Portuguesa Soup

Rancho A Portuguesa Soup.

You can have Rancho A Portuguesa Soup using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Rancho A Portuguesa Soup

1. It's of pork meat (any cut will do, add pieces with fat like belly slices).
2. Prepare of chicken pieces.
3. You need of chorizo (whole).
4. You need of black pudding (optional).
5. You need of chick peas, pre-cooked in pressure cooker or 2 tins.
6. You need of pasta (any pasta).
7. You need of green beans (ends trimmed and left whole).
8. It's of potatoes (diced thickly).
9. You need of carrot (sliced).
10. It's of onion (whole).
11. You need of green pumpkin (cut into chunks).
12. Prepare of rock salt for the meat.
13. You need of olive oil.
14. You need of fresh mint.
15. Prepare of water, may need more to add during cooking..

Rancho A Portuguesa Soup step by step

1. Salt the meat at least 4 hours before cooking. Place in the fridge..
2. If cooking the chick peas, save the water so as to use when cooking your meat..
3. Place onion and all the meats including chorizo and black pudding in water in a pressure cooker..
4. Seal the cooker and cook for 40-45 minutes..
5. When your able to open the cooker, transfer all the water to a large saucepan and bring to the heat on medium, leave the meat in the pressure cooker to keep warm..
6. Add all the prepared vegetables, chick peas (minus the mint) and olive oil to the meat water and bring to the boil on a medium heat then reduce and simmer on low for up to 50 minutes or until the vegatables are cooked to your desire..
7. During this time stir occasionally and add more water if it starts to evaporate from the saucepan..
8. Add pasta 15 minutes after the vegetables and cook for the rest of the 50 minutes..
9. Add the mint 10 minutes before stove is turned off..
10. Check seasoning, let it rest for 10 minutes..
11. In the meantime prepare your meat by cutting it into smaller pieces. Serve alongside the soup and some rustic bread..