Karvavitsa from Thrace

Name: How to cook Karvavitsa from Thrace - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Cookpad Greece

Karvavitsa from Thrace

Karvavitsa is the traditional dish that the people of Thrace prepare on Christmas day. At Koufalia (my husband's birthplace, where 90% of the inhabitants are refugees from Kavakli in Eastern Romylia) you won't find even one house that doesn't make karvavitsa for Christmas. It is pig's intestines filled with pig pluck and pork meat.

Ingredient

Food ration :

10 servings

pig pluck (liver, lung, heart, spleen)

1 kg

pork (if possible, homemade kavourma)

large leeks, finely chopped

chili peppers, finely cut (or more if you like it very hot)

2 tbsp

pimento grains

2 tbsp

black pepper grains

3 tbsp

red sweet pepper powder

2 tbsp

salt (increase according to taste)

1.5 cup

rice

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Wash the intestines thoroughly.

* Step 2

Wash the pluck thoroughly, blanch it, discard the extra fat and cut it into pieces, about 2x2 or slightly larger.

* Step 3

Boil the pork for a while and cut it into small pieces, as well. (If you have ready homemade kavourma just cut it into small pieces).

* Step 4

Put all the ingredients into a large bowl and mix well, adding water so that you have a relatively runny filling and using a funnel fill the intestines one by one tying the ends with string.

* Step 5

Place the intestines cyclically into a large pot and boil in slightly salted water that covers them well, for about 5-6 hours over low heat, making holes in the intestines using a toothpick (after they have boiled for a couple of minutes) so that they don't burst and let out the filling into the pot.

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