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Cocido Madrileno, Three Courses
Fermin Cuellar
Chef-owner, Casa Bragado, Madrid, ES
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Cocido Madrileno, Three Courses

5 h 30 min total80 min hands-onServes 6Medium

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One pot, served as three courses, in the order Madrid has argued about for two centuries.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Large stockpot, Second pan for the cabbage, Muslin net or mesh basket
Allergens
Gluten, Sulphites
Method
28 steps · 19 photographed · 5 filmed
Components
4 made from scratch
Films
3, 19 min

4 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

The base broth

Film

Beef shank, hen, marrow bone and jamon bone started in cold water and skimmed for the first hour.

Everything else sits in this liquid. Start it hot and the proteins seize and cloud it, and no straining afterwards will clear it.

  • Beef shank000 g
  • Hen000 g
Steps
6
Time
2.5 h
Hands-on
30 min

Makes 3.5 L broth

Up to 2 days ahead

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Chickpeas in the net

Film

Overnight-soaked chickpeas lowered into the simmering broth inside a mesh bag.

Loose chickpeas break up and turn the broth to porridge. The net is how every Madrid kitchen serves them whole.

  • Dried chickpeas000 g
  • Coarse salt000 g
Steps
5
Time
3 h
Hands-on
10 min

Makes 800 g cooked

Soak the night before; cook on the day

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Cabbage, apart

Cabbage boiled separately, then finished in a pan with garlic and paprika.

Boiled in the main pot it perfumes the whole cocido with sulphur. Every good version cooks it in its own water.

  • Cabbage000 g
  • Garlic000 g
Steps
4
Time
30 min
Hands-on
15 min

Makes Serves 6

Boil ahead, fry to order

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The first vuelco

A ladle of the finished broth cooked with fine noodles and served before anything else.

The soup is the course the rest of the meal is judged by, and it is made from the pot rather than alongside it.

  • Cocido broth000 g
  • Fine noodles000 g
Steps
3
Time
12 min
Hands-on
10 min

Makes 6 bowls

Made at the table, not before

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Dried chickpeas000 g
  • Beef shank000 g
  • Marrow bone000 g
  • Jamon bone000 g
  • Tocino000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 19 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING6:00

Buying morcilla and chorizo for boiling, not for grilling

TECHNIQUE5:00

Skimming: the first hour decides the broth

KIT8:00

Timing three courses out of one pot

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 28 STEPS

19 photographed · 5 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 19 of the 28 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 5 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: keeping the broth clear through the first hour — step 17 of 28.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 22 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Fermin Cuellar watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Why the chorizo goes in its own pan

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Salting only at the end

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Turning the leftovers into ropa vieja

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

Which meats go in cold and which go in late, and why the chorizo is never boiled with the chickpeas.

Written by Fermin Cuellar. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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