Indio
viejo
Indio Viejo ("old Indian") is a type of
stew popular in Nicaragua. It is usually
made with shredded corn and beef.
The dish is traditional from Nicaragua
and one of the most established. It is
similar to porridge. It dates back to
at least colonial times and a mortar
and pestle was used to prepare the
dish.
 Indio viejo Recipe
    1. Bring the meat to a boil with the onion,
       chiltoma, garlic and salt with enough water
       until it softens.
2. Finely.
Take out the meat and fray it (shred it),
3. Strain the broth and save it to use it later in the
elaboration of the old Indian.
4. If you have an omelet, break it into pieces and
soak them for an hour with part of the broth or if
you have flour, knead it with a little broth, to the
dough that Obtained either tortilla or flour add, in
a liquefied form, the onion, chiltoma, garlic, pepper,
cumin, tomato and achiote.
 Indio viejo Recipe
5. Add more broth until it is like a Thick atol.
Add more broth until it is like a
6. Fry in the lard, the chopped onion and chiltoma
along with the frayed (shrumbled) meat.
7. When it's a little fried, add the atol of the dough
and keep cooking by moving Continuously for about 15
minutes so that it does not stick or until it takes on a
golden appearance.
8 For the most, add 5 sprigs of peppermint, sour
orange juice to taste.
9. Season with salt to taste and if it is very dry, add
broth, serve with Creole sauce and put on top of the
old Indian at the time of serving.
   INGREDIENTS:
For the meat:                      To fry the meat:
                                                                  Indio
    2 pounds of beef post or           ½ cup of lard              viejo
    chicken post                       2 large chopped onions
    1 onion                            2 large chopped
    1 chiltoma                         chiltomas
    ½ head of garlic                   For the Creole sauce:
    Salt                               1 teaspoon of oil
  For the dough:                       2 sliced tomatoes
       8 ounces of corn dough          2 medium sliced onions
       or 10 tortillas in pieces        3 tablespoons of tomato
       ½ tablespoon of oil              sauce
       1 onion                          1 teaspoon of sugar
                                        ½ cup of water
       ½ head of garlic
                                        Salt
       1 teaspoon of pepper
                                        Pepper to taste
       1 pinch of cumin
       Sour orange juice
       5 bouquets of peppermint
        3 tomatoes