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Ropa Vieja

Cuban "old clothes" are shredded, saucy and melt in your mouth tender. Mentally prepare yourself to pressure cook!
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Hello.
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Hey, ma, hi, how are you?
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I'm good.
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Hey, listen.
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Ok.
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So since tomorrow is Mother's Day and obviously I can't be
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back in Jersey.
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I want to make your, as, you know, I've never made it before
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So I need you to tell me exactly how to make it step by step, please
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Yeah, that's my favorite.
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Well, you're gonna need uh fried cakes, one small onion, two
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garlic cilantro, a piece of green pepper salt.
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And obviously the is gonna make a, so you need the, the onions
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the peppers.
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It works best if you have different colored peppers because
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it looks prettier like at least two garlics as well.
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A pinch of mon cilantro as well.
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A packet of or about a half a cup of cooking wine and a can of tomato
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sauce.
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You're gonna pack the Frank steak in about uh an inch and a half
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and then you're gonna put it in the pressure cooker with all
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those ingredients and you give it about a half an hour after
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that, you're going to use another sauce pan.
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You're gonna make a sofrito, just put it in a, in a sauce pan
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with a two garlics as well.
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The peppers in different colors, peppers and saute onions
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altogether.
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A pinch of cilantro er, and a can of tomato sauce and just simmer
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everything.
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And then once we um, we do this, we are, the cake is getting food
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so make sure that the cooker it doesn't have any pressure,
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take the meat out.
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So just shred it really well, just place it in the tomato and
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just stir it up, get all those flavors in there and then add
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about a half a cup of cooking wine.
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The olive is very important that gives it a good flavor.
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Cut up the olives through in half and then use uh a little bit
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of the juice of the, of the olive also.
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Um a remember I used to make white rice with or Maduro and, and
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it will be very, it's really quite a process.
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You'll be, you'll be OK.
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It's gonna come out really delic.
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No worries.
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OK, man, I need to go because I need to buy all these ingredients
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and then mentally prepare myself to use a pressure cooker
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OK.
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OK.
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Bye.