Asturian Pote
By Aurora López
Cookware:
5 Qt Saladmaster Titanium Pot
Ingredients:
- 400 g Asturian beans
 - 2 Asturian sausages
 - 1 Asturian black pudding
 - 200 g lacon or cured bacon
 - 150 g of cabbage leaves (or cabbage if no cabbage is found)
 - 150 g sour potato, peeled and cut into small pieces
 - Water
 
Elaboration
- Soak the beans overnight
 - Drain them, wash them with water and add them to the pot, covering them with fresh water
 - Put the 5 Qt Saladmaster titanium pot at medium temperature
 - Cover pot and wait for intense click, lower to minimum heat
 - When they take 1 hour, open the pot and add the sausage and chorizos
 - Cover again, raise the temperature until intense click, and again lower to minimum
 - Cook 1 hour and a half
 - To prepare the cabbages, remove the stems and cut the leaves into pieces
 - Add 1 liter of water in the 3 Qt Saladmaster titanium Sauce Pan, put it at medium temperature
 - When the water is hot add the cabbage leaves and black pudding
 - Cook for 15 minutes
 - Set aside the black pudding
 - Drain the cabbage and add it to the pot with the beans, to cook everything together until the end, reserve the cooking water
 - Half an hour before finishing the cooking of the beans, add the chopped potatoes to the pot
 - If they are not covered with water, add water from cooking the cabbage so that they are covered with water while cooking
 - Cover the pot again, raise to medium temperature until intense click and lower to minimum for 30 minutes
 - Test and rectify salt if necessary
 - When the potato is to taste, and cooked legumes remove the pot from the heat
 - Remove from the pot, the chorizos and the lacón, chop next to the reserved black pudding and return again to the pot
 - Cover and keep covered until service
 - Serve hot
 - Like many stews, the flavors will be more settled if cooked a day before eating