Venezuelan vegetable soup (Omar)

Choclo (soak 1/2 of a package in water over night)
cook for 90 minutes in the instant pot (cover with about 3x water)


boil 1.7 l spring water to skin 2 tomatoes and precook yucca

put frozen yucca in smaller pot and cook separately for about 12-15 minutes

 

put 2-3 TBSP olive oil in large soup pot (8 liter)
(don’t turn gas on yet)

add

1 onion cut into large pieces
2 skinned/seeded tomatoes (quartered)
3 carrots (medium) or 2 large

2-3 green onions (cut in half, keep green end for later, cut white end into larger pieces – not too finely)

3 garlic, roughly cut
1 garlic, finely cut (keep for later)

1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon adobo
1 teaspoon oregano

before turning on the gas
clean already for later

2 Dasheen (put into water to avoid oxidation)
2 Malanga
1-2 sweet potatoes

turn on gas and fry, moving everything for a few minutes


 then add

1 cup of frozen corn kernels
choclo (1/2 pack precooked)
Malanga, Dasheen, sweet potatoes

sieve the pre-cooked yucca and put water into big pot

then add about one additional liter boiling spring water

cover pot

put timer to 10 minutes to start boiling



put yucca in cold water, previously used for the Malanga
when cold enough, cut and take out root fiber from the middle
add to the pot already


cut 1/2 pumpkin, take seeds out, and cut some parts of the skin

after the 10 minutes

add pumpkin and more water

cook 10 minutes


peel and cut 1 Batata (slightly red skin, a little sweet), put in water to avoid oxidation

peel and cut 2 medium potatoes

add Batata and potatoes

2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon oregano

1 teaspoon Guascas

cook 20 minutes


add one garlic, cut into finer slices
add fideos soup (one package for the very large pot)
add 2 Teaspoons adobo
add 2 Teaspoons salt

cook 10 minutes


try potatoes (also sweet potatoes) if they are soft

perhaps cook 5 more minutes, switch off


clear 1/2 bunch of cilantro, cut stems at about halfway, and discard

chop upper part with stems and leaves finely with a knife

cut green part of green onion

only add cilantro and green onion, when switching off the gas