Montse Sánchez special recipe: Escudella

Montse Sánches is the with no discussions the First Lady of the Scrabble in Spain, and this is not for beinf the wife of one of the best players in Spain, Patxi Navarro, but by her own effort. Montse is the best female player of Scrabble in Spain.

Mentor, colleague and great club friend, is a box full of surprises. When you play with her she look so serious, with an expression of "so you dare to play with me" ;P you can hardly imagine that is a total crack (and thanks to the world championships, internationally renowned as well) telling jokes! She should go to Paramount Comedy! The pity is that I have not even recorded her on video because she usually makes jokes when we are eating and catches me with my hands full! But I´ll try to do the next time that I have the chance

Montse was part of the group celebrating the year-end in Leon and on Jan. first she had prepared us a very delicious Escudella, here is the recipe:

Montse´s Escudella:

Ingredients:

A good piece of pork backbone
A knee bone veal
300 gr. of lean beef
400 gr. white beans or chickpeas
1 black butifarra
1 cabbage
4 carrots
Potato
Rice or thick noodles
Salt
2 chicken breasts

For making the balls:

Minced meat (best mix of beef and pork, because pork is too greasy and the beef is too dull).
Salt
Egg
Garlic
Parsley
Bread crumbs

Preparing the balls:

Mix everything until obtaining a homogeneous mixture and make balls of desired size (Montse likes big ones, about 4 with this mix.) When it´s consistent, flour enough.

Preparation:

Put the cabbage, carrots and all meat less the burifarra to boil with plenty of water an hour and a half or 2 hours, add potatoes and balls, let it boils ¾ of an hour. 15 min before the end, add the previously cooked beans or chick peas and butifarra (must be thin, not fat, with the thin skin). Place the broth separately and in this lay the pasta you want, cook until the pasta is done (5 or 10 min).

Serving:

Serve the soup first and Montse recommends shredding the butifarra (black sausage) in the soup. Place the rest in 2-tray sets, one with meat and other with the vegetables and let everyone to eat as they like (only the soup first, then the vegetables ... all mixed, as each person wants!).