Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1000 grams beef cut into cubes
  • 2 medium onions chopped
  • 1 clove garlic chopped
  • 6 each pimentos
  • 4 each laurel leaf
  • 250 millilitres red wine dry
  • 2 medium carrots grated into little stripes
  • 2 medium leeks without leaves, sliced into rings
  • 100 grams celeriac root grated
  • 2 medium sweet red bell peppers cut into small squares
  • 1 medium green bell peppers cut into small squares
  • 6 medium potatoes cut into big cubes
  • 4 tablespoon marjoram
  • 5 tablespoon paprika powdered, sweet
  • 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper powdered
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt to taste

Method

  • Fry onion with butter in a large pot for 5 minutes.
  • Add 1/2 cup water, beef, garlic, pimento, laurel leaf and 1 teaspoon salt.
  • Stew for 2 hours adding little wine from time to time.
  • In the time of stewing beef, prepare vegetables.
  • After 2 hours stewing beef, remove all laurel leaves.
  • Add all vegetables and fill the pot with water to the top of ingredients.
  • Boil the soup up.
  • Add marjoram, sweet paprika powder, cayenne pepper powder, chili powder.
  • Mix the soup up and boil for 50 minutes.
  • Add salt to taste.