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Kawlata (Maltese Vegetable and Pork Soup)

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Kawlata (Maltese Vegetable and Pork Soup) — a recipe imported from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Yield 4–6

Ingredients

  • 4 fresh whole Maltese sausages
  • 4 shoulder-cut pork chops (ideally left attached in one piece and separated only after cooking)
  • 1 piece (300 g) fresh pork belly, salt-cured gammon, or smoked bacon
  • 1 ham hock or a pig's trotter (not boned)
  • Oil for frying the onion
  • 2 large onions, chopped
  • 1 whole medium cabbage, cut into medium chunks
  • 2 large potatoes, cut into medium chunks
  • 1–2 kohlrabi, cut into medium chunks
  • 1 large slice of red-fleshed pumpkin (qargħa hamra; optional), cut into medium chunks
  • 1 large slice of yellow-fleshed pumpkin (qargħa Torka; optional), cut into medium chunks
  • ½ ea. medium cauliflower (optional), cut into medium chunks
  • 3–4 carrots (optional), cut into medium chunks
  • Chopped green celery leaves (Maltese krafes)
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 1–2 tbsp tomato paste, diluted with a little water
  • A few sprigs of flat-leaf parsley, chopped

Instructions

  1. 1
    Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil, and scald the hock or trotter in it for 10 minutes.
  2. 2
    Remove the hock or trotter, discard the water, refill with fresh water and bring to the boil again.
  3. 3
    Place the hock or trotter in the boiling water with the other meats you are using, turn heat down, and cook a few minutes, skimming scum from the surface.
  4. 4
    When there is no more scum forming, remove the meats from the water. Reserve both the cooking water and all the meats.
  5. 5
    In a pot over medium heat, soften and wilt the onion in the olive oil without letting it brown.
  6. 6
    Add the cabbage, potatoes, kohlrabi, pumpkin, cauliflower, carrots, and celery leaves. Season with salt and pepper, cover, and sweat together on low heat for 5–6 minutes
  7. 7
    Add the tomato paste and reserved meats.
  8. 8
    Add some of the water in which you boiled the meats (the quantity depends on whether you want a one-dish stew or a two course meal, see below). Simmer over moderately low heat until the meats are tender.
  9. 9
    Five minutes from the end of cooking time, taste and adjust for seasoning, then add the chopped flat leaf parsley.
Category
Soups

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Kawlata_(Maltese_Vegetable_and_Pork_Soup)