I just decided to stop being a useless NEET and learn to cook. Ecuadorian spic here so allow me to show you the food of my people!
This is called a "caldo de bola" or "broth of balls" or "soup of balls", this is quite the difficult dish for a beginner and I know shit about cooking so I expected a fucking disaster.
This vomit-like mixture you see in the pot is a mixture of onions, tomato and green peppers with water, anyway lets move on!
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Of course senpai.
After boiling for an hour I added 3 plantains, peeled obviously, some yucca, pumpkin and corn as you can see, now leave it boiling more, shit takes hours to make.
>plantains
You mean bananas?
where's the balls
To be honest it looks like you're randomly throwing ingredients in it hoping that it will be edible.
Now apart of the three plantains that we left boiling in the pot, we grab three other plantains, this ones we're not going to cook yet.
Eh, well, the correct term we use here is "Verde" which means green but in this sense, I decided to consult with google translator and it gave me plantains, wikipedia also gives me the same term.
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I followed mom's instructions dude, I know what I'm doing, kinda.
Shit forgot image, anyway follow me, I mean it's already done but I'm documenting step by step what I did.
As you can see in that image I am a disaster peeling this shit, anyway.
So the three raw plantains we pick up (I'm using this term cause wikipedia told me to but call it bananas if you will but I warn you, they're not sweet like bananas) we grate these three raw plantains, this, along with the other three we put in the pot, are going to be used to make some BIG, FAT, BALLS
After we finish grating them and have this weird weird grated plantains, we take the other three from the pot out and we mash the fuck out of them. Mash them hard damn it.
I didn't take a picture of this step so I'm going to describe it detail, we mash the shit out of the boiled, cooked or whatever the term it is to put shit in a pot (I'm not a chef nor know Veeky Forums shit), we mash the shit out of it and then mix it with the grated plantains.
We mix them both and with your hands you're going to mix them, mash them, mix them more, you're going to get messy with this bitch. You're practically beating the shit out of this mass of bananas while giving it a gentle massage at the same time, this is so it becomes nice and soft so we can make balls out of it.
You can tell I just stop giving a fuck about taking pictures of shit but anyway, again in detail.
We proceed to make the fillings for the balls, I call them balls but I imagine the correct term to use in the land of the free and home of the brave is dumplings but whatever.
This is made with onions, tomato, pepper and the meat we previously had in the pot, oh shit I forgot.
Yeah when we started all this shit, apart of all the stuff I mentioned we put here we also put some beef, so now we take that beef out of the pot, we cut it in small pieces and add it to the onions, green peppers and tomatoes, and a peanut sauce you can either make it or buy premade. fry them in a pan and we get pic related.
Now grab your mashed, grated, mixed plantains and put this filling in and proceed to make balls out of them.
Nice and round.
Here they are mate. Well it's kind of hard to make them exactly like balls and I'm a disaster but an attempt was made.
I bet Argentina envies my whiteness.
Now we dump those little fucks in the pot, oh yeah I hope you had the common sense of adding salt in the pot like 5 posts back.
We leave them there until the balls float, then it's done. Don't stir it, don't mix it, don't fucking touch the pot or you'll break apart those balls, leave them there.
When they float then you're ready to serve it.
Oh yeah, that little leaf on one of the balls? That's peppermint I added to the pot, it gives it flavor, just put some peppermint in it while the balls boil.
Anyway pic related is the finished product, it may look weird but believe me this shit is good and now you too can make your balls soup!
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You can also make yourself a side dish of rice since the only thing we south americans love more than ruining our continent with shitty socialist ideals and electing incompetent populist leaders, is rice! We fucking love rice.
I hope at least someone here kept lurking and didn't pass out at the sight of this foreign abomination, but believe it's good so try it for yourself.
Now unless there are any questions on the preparation of this shit I will head back to my board of North Korean motion pictures.
Honestly, what the fuck OP?
This is a beautiful display of diversity which is why you better make that wall fast.
To be fair it's my second time attempting some serious cooking, pic related is how it should look but at least I tried.
What do balls taste like? I've never been able to find them in the US outside of deep-fried novelties where you can't even taste them
neat
Argie here your coffee is absolutely shit and completely overrated, also you eat rats.
I have nothing else to add because nobody cares about your country
>not sweet like bananas
yeah those are plantains then, starchier, etc either way it sounds a bit like a spic version of matzoh balls OP
Plantains are those bananas that get made into chips. Real starchy.
Also I am both relieved and disappointed that there are no testicles in this soup
>What do balls taste like?
Like cooked bananas. The filling is what's good.
>deep-fried novelties where you can't even taste them
We have some deep friend balls called "Bolon de verde", they're balls of plantain, fried cheese or pork rind or both, they're more like a snack or for breakfast.
>I have nothing else to add because nobody cares about your country
To be fair me neither but I can't get out of this shithole yet.
>you eat rats.
Those are the fucking savages of the highlands mate, don't lump with them.
I thought you were talking about testicles
Aren't you guys getting tons of Venezuelan immigration? How are you handling that shit?
By waiting for this place to get as bad as Venezuela and then laugh at them for jumping from one socialist shithole to another.
No testicles here but we have a soup made of pork viscera and pork blood. I am as disgusted as you are.
>we have a soup made of pork viscera and pork blood
You have my attention, good sir.
This eldritch abomination right here is called caldo de salchicha, broth of sausage, from what little I know about it, it contains sausage filled with rice, pork tripes, pork viscera and two cups of pork blood.
Seriously shit's disgusting.
Also here for this filling I should have told you that you also add a little of paste of achiote.
that actually turned out alright, good job
Nice thread, OP
>pork blood
>anything but delicious
Fuck that is tasty lookin
What are my chances as a chink to get a cute Ecuadorian honey to marry?
looks dank af