Name: Carne Gizado
Prep time: 24 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 25 h
Yield: 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 3 -4 lbs pork or 3 -4 lbs beef; 4 -5 white potatoes; 3 lbs cassava (mandioca root); 3 medium white yams; 3 green bananas

Recipe by MsMargo

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A Cape Verdean meat stew. Mandioca Portugeese for Cassava.

Ready In:: 25hrs
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ingredients

3 -4 3 -4 lbs pork or 3 -4 lbs beef
4 -5 white potatoes
3 lbs cassava (mandioca root)
3 medium white yams
3 green bananas

directions

Trim off excess fat, season and marinate meat overnight with salt, garlic, vinegar, bay leaf, and pepper.
Peel and cut up potatoes, yams, mandioca, and green bananas.
In a pot, cook meat with marinade and 3 onions with 1/2 cup cooking oil on low heat until medium done.
Add all vegetables to meat and cover with water. Cook on low until vegetables cook.
Season with salt, garlic, bay leaf, paprika, and pepper.

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