Turtle Soup (Sopa de Tortuga)

Ingredients

• 2 libras turtle meat
• 3 onzas butter
• 4 cloves garlic, ground
• 2 onzas maní (peanuts), toasted and ground
• onion, in rounds
• tomato juice
• parsley, chopped
• salt
• 4 tazas good broth
• 1 glass wine
• pepper

Instructions

1. Wash two pounds of turtle meat well and place it in an enameled casserole.
2. Fry it with three ounces of butter, adding four ground garlic cloves, two ounces of toasted and ground peanuts (maní), onion rounds, tomato juice, chopped parsley, and salt.
3. When everything is well fried, pour in four cups of good broth and a glass of wine.
4. Season and let it boil until the turtle is well cooked.
5. Dust with pepper in the tureen.