Beef Pochero Recipe

Like different Filipino dishes there are many ways to cook this Pochero, some use baked beans instead of chickpeas, others use potatoes instead of sweet potatoes and other opt for cabbage instead of bok choy but one thing remains it’s basically a tomato based stew of beef or chicken meat cooked with chorizo, some sort of beans, a starchy root crop and vegetable greens.

The name “puchero” is a Spanish word that means “stew pot”, having said that this dish originally came from Spain and is now prepared in countries they had colonized like Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Philippines. Though they exist on the named countries the preparation is quite different as it was adjusted to the local ingredients available in…