Hallaca Venezuelan, recipe over 100 years.

Hello, friends, steemians. In this opportunity I come to talk about the hallaca and its preparation, I hope you enjoy it and dare to make this delicious dish. The hallaca is a typical Venezuelan dish that is present in our tables every December, for many years thousands of families have gathered in their homes for the elaboration of this exquisite dish, and where each family adds a different ingredient for highlight the original flavor. In my family my grandmother used to sell hallacas at Christmas time, being recognized as one of the best hallacas in the town where she lives, her recipe survives in time and nowadays her daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters make this typical dish following her recipe, so below I will detail the list of ingredients necessary for its preparation, I hope you are encouraged to try it.

Ingredients:

Necessary for the stew:
2 kg of pork
2 kg of sweet pepper
1 kg of onion
1 kg of chives
1 kg of tomato
1 kg of carrots
200 gr of garlic
500 gr of caper
500 gr of olives
4 cups of chicken broth
Powdered paprika
salt and pepper to taste
Necessary for the dough:
1 kg of corn flour
800ml of water
2 cups of the previous stew broth
salt to taste
To wrap the hallaca:
enough banana leaves, ready and clean.
1 cup of corn oil
wick thread
onions on wheels
2 julienne peppers
3 parboiled eggs.

Preparation of stew and dough:
Cut the pork into medium squares,finely chop the sweet pepper, onion, garlic, chives, tomato, place the 4 cups of chicken stock and bring to a pot over low heat. Wash and chop the carrot into slices and add to the stew along with the capers, the olives and season with salt, pepper and paprika powder let reduce and remove from heat.
In a clean container place 800 ml of water, add salt to taste and add the corn flour and knead with your hands to form a solid dough, soften with the stock of the stew previously prepared.
To fill the dough:
On a clean table place the banana leaf cut rectangular, apply a little oil and spread, take a ball of the dough placed on top of the leaf and give cicular shape, add on top of this stew and place a slece of onion, a strip of paprika, 4 or 5 raisins, 2 slices of the al ready cooked egg and go wrapping the dough in the banana leaf giving it a rectangular shape, finally ti e with the thread and take it in a pot the hallaca over medium heat for about 45 minutes.
I hope and encourage you to try this delicious recipe.The photos were taken from my LG G2 mini D620 phone.
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()![20171224_130809.jpg] Hallaca wrapped in banana leaf.