By Javier, Arantxa, Jose Antonio, Carlos, Roberto, David, Elena, Estela, Alicia, Patricia, Eduardo and their teacher Charo

Today, Eduardo, a boy of 6th level, invites me to have lunch with his family. The main course is a traditional dish from La Mancha called “Caldereta”. I’m very interested in the way it is cooked so I ask him to show it to me.

In the kitchen, here are the ingredients for 4 people:-1 kg or 1kg and 1/4 of lamb meat .- 1 head of garlic.- 2 onions. …

…- 2 medium sized tomatoes- 1 cup of white wine.- 1 cup of brandy.- 1/2 a cup of dry wine- A little olive oil.- Oregano to your liking.- 2 leaves of bay.- Black pepper to your liking.-1/2 a glass of water. - Salt.

And now, let me show you how to cook it, step by step.

Chop the lamb …

… onions, garlics and tomatoes.

Put them all in a saucepan. Don’t turn on the cooker yet!

Add the olive oil …

… bay, oregano, black pepper and salt…

… white wine …

… brandy …

And the dry wine. Don’t worry about boozes, alcohol desappears after few minutes on fire.

Finally, add water and turn on the cooker now.

Let it boil hardly for a few minutes in order to alcohol evaporates.

Then get the cooker temperature lower and cover the saucepan.

More or less after an hour, the sauce reduces and becomes denser. The food is ready to eat!

In Spain, it is said:“Que aproveche”.

Umm, delicious!!