A Bulgarian Stew

Duvec Recipe:

Ingredients:

3 onions

5 carrots

2 zucchini

4 bell peppers

2 large tomatoes

5 potatoes

5 mushrooms

200 g celery

200 g green beans

1 kilogram pork shoulder

5 lamb sausages

garlic

thyme

green onions

　

Preparation:

Cut meat, sausage and vegetables into uniform pieces.

Salt and pepper the meat and sausage and sauté them in sunflower-seed oil for about 10 minutes. Remove them from the pan.

Add garlic, thyme and green onions to the vegetables and stir-fry in the same pan for about ten minutes.

Start with a layer of vegetables in the pot, then add a layer of meat and sausage, then a layer of vegetables, and so on - up to about five centimeters from the top of the pot.

Cover the pot and bake for an hour and a half at 140 degrees Celsius.

Serve Duvec hot from the pot right away.

This recipe comes to us courtesy of Chef Ivan Manchev of The Cactus Restaurant in Sofia, Bulgaria.