Meat croquettes

Traditionally we use the stock mixed meat to cook this recipe. When you finish preparing meat broth you have to separate meat and broth. You use the broth as a soup and you can reuse the meat for different recipes.

This is one of them, it's not a healthy dish, this is not either an easy dish, but it is a cheap, and this is a good reason to include it to our list of dishes.

You may need:
- Beef, pork and chicken meat
- 1 Onion
- 3 tbsp Flour

So, you take the cooked meat and make little pieces of meat and take off the bones.

Once you have the meat ready, cut the onion in small pieces and put them in a pan onto the heater with olive oil (5 tbsp). When you notice that the onion is already tender, then add the meat in the pan and wait until it is fried, and add progressively tablespoons of flour to it. You may notice that the mix turns into a kind of homogeneous pastry; it means that it is ready.

After that you have to put it in a container and leave it to stand in the fridge until the day after. Next day, you take the pastry with 2 tablespoons and shape the pastry like a croquette.

When you finish, beat one egg (or two, depending on the number of croquettes), take a big container and add breadcrumbs. Cover the croquettes with egg and then with breadcrumbs. Once you have the croquettes ready, you can give them a proper shape and after, you just have to fry them.

They are really delicious and very cheap, as you have used the same meat to make a complete course (broth and croquettes). We eat them with white bread and you may take it also as a snack. However, we have to admit that this is a quite a laborious dish to prepare.

Mixed Meat Stock

It is a quite simple recipe cooked specially in winter, as it is a warm dish. You may need different types of meat to carry it out.

Ingredients for 2 people:
- 2 Chicken empty carcasses
- 225 gr. (1/2 lb.) small pork T-Bone
- 225 gr. (1/2 lb.) Beef rib
- 150 gr. (0,33 lb) Fatty salt pork

Preparation is very simple. First of all try to move the fat away the meat (except in the case of the fatty salt pork), then wash the meat with water and put all the parts in a pot; fill the pot with water (not completely, but until the water gets over the meat). Then add a pinch of salt and put the pot on to the heat.

You will have to wait until it comes to the boil, and after that try it often (add salt if it needs so) until you notice it is done. The whole process may take about one hour. Once it is already done, you will have to separate the meat and the broth. The meat may be also useful for other delicious dishes (but we will explain them on another occasion).

You may notice that there is broth enough for some days. We put it in 500cl (17,6 oz) containers and freeze it, so we have broth for several days (very useful when it is cold).We heat it and take it as a hot beverage or we heat it and when it boils we add little pasta pieces like angels hair or smaller.
Once the pasta is cooked it is ready.