
Paraguay / Soup
Vori vori
Chicken soup with corn-and-cheese dumplings, Paraguayan winter food.
Ingredients
- Chicken, in pieces1.4 kg
- Corn flour300 g
- Fresh salty cheese, grated250 g
- Onions2
- Sweet pepper1
- Tomatoes3
- Carrot1
- Egg1
- Annatto1 tsp
- Oregano1 tsp
- Parsley30 g
- Vegetable oil50 ml
- Salt and pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Brown the chicken pieces with the annatto on every side.
Add the onion, pepper, tomatoes and carrot and stew until the vegetables soften.
Pour in two litres of water, salt it and simmer forty minutes over a low heat.
Mix the corn flour with the grated cheese, egg, oregano and a pinch of salt.
Add a couple of spoons of hot broth and work it into a firm dough that holds its shape.
Roll walnut-sized balls, compacting each between your palms.
Drop the balls into the boiling broth, leave them five minutes unstirred and cook twenty. Scatter with parsley.


