Sopa de Mondongo

Name: Sopa de Mondongo
Total time: 4 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Colombian
Ingredients: 1 kg Beef tripe, cleaned; 3 Limes for cleaning; 400 g Pork ribs or chorizo; 500 g Potatoes, diced; 2 Carrot, diced; 200 g Green peas; 2 Onion, chopped; 6 Spring onion, sliced; 6 cloves Garlic, crushed; 3 Tomato, chopped; 2 tsp Ground cumin; 40 g Fresh coriander, chopped; 3.5 L Water; 3 tsp Salt; 2 tbsp Oil

Tripe cut into small squares and simmered for hours with pork, potato, carrot and peas until it is completely tender — a dish that rewards patience and punishes shortcuts.

Fuente

Receta de Paisa kitchens of Antioquia · 🏺 Tradicional · Mountain farm cooking built for a long day's work — beans, rice, pork and plantain on one plate, and nobody apologising for the size of it.

Colombian · tripe soup — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms the Latin American origin, the diced tripe base and the vegetables cooked with it. That the article covers several countries' versions is stated rather than glossed over. Quantities, the lime-clean step and the timings are this book's own.

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Pasos

Wash the tripe under cold running water, rub it with the juice of the limes and leave it 30 minutes, then rinse well.
💡 The lime soak is what removes the smell. Skip it and the whole pot will taste of what you were trying to get rid of.
Cut the tripe into 1 cm squares. This takes twenty minutes and there is no way round it.
Simmer the tripe in the water with half the onion and the garlic for 2 hours, until you can bite through a piece easily.
Meanwhile fry the rest of the onion, the spring onion, tomato and cumin in the oil for 15 minutes into a hogao. Add it to the pot with the pork.
Simmer another 45 minutes, then add the potato and carrot and cook 25 minutes.
Add the peas and salt for the last 10 minutes. Stir in the coriander off the heat and serve with rice, avocado and lime.

💡 Consejos

Two hours on the tripe alone is the minimum. Undercooked tripe is rubbery and nothing later in the recipe fixes it.
Cut small. One-centimetre squares cook evenly and are far easier to eat than long strips.
It is a hangover cure across Colombia, and it is genuinely better the next day.