Prepare Briek's hotch-potch!


The recipe of Briek Schotte's hotch-potch. Enjoy your meal!

Ingredients (for 12 to 15 persons)

1 pig’s tale
1 kg of spare rib
2 pig’s feet
1 hock
1 kg of bacon
2 pig’s cheeks
2 pig’s ears
2 sausages

Stock:

Garlic
3 onions
Thyme
2 bay leaves
Clove
2 tablespoons of lard

Vegetables:

1/2 cauliflower
2 leek whites
6 turnips
5 carrots
6 large potatoes
2 bay leaves
Thyme
2 tablespoons of lard

Preparation:

1. Pickle the meat with nitrite salt, rub into the salt.
2. Put the meat in a dish and cover with salt.
3. Fill up with water and stir everything.
4. Let it sit for one night in a dark basement (around 8°C).
5. Desalt the meat by squeezing the salt out in cold water. Let it sit in fresh cold water for 4 hours.
6. Melt the lard and stew the onions together with some thyme and bay leaves. Add the meat and some water. 
7. Add the carrots and the garlic.
8. Allow it to cook slowly for 4 hours.
9. Wash the rest of the vegetables and chop them to pieces. Stew the potatoes and turnips in the rest of the lard. Let them cook through.
10. Pour everything in one dish and cook the sausages in the mean time.

Recipe: Jeroen Meus