ingredients
-corn dough or flour

-meat of your choice, indio viejo can be made of chicken, beef, fish, deer, iguana, or armadillo, there no right or wrong when choosing the meat, its common with all different kinds of meats.

-onions, cubanelle peppers or bell peppers, tomatoes, and garlic

-sour orange juice, if you dont have sour oranges then substitute with lemon but DO NOT USE SWEET ORANGES

-oil or butter of your choice

-fresh mint

- achiote for color, or use paprika

directions

-prepare your meat with some onions, peppers, garlic and tomatoes. you can stew it in water, grill it, bake it, fry it or whatever way you want to cook it. then set it aside.

-next prepare your corn flour.

-mix your corn dough or flour in a bowl with some water and liquefied garlic, tomatoes, peppers and onions. you should have a consistency of cake batter. mix in some achiote or paprika for color.add salt

-cook this mixture in a pot over medium heat consistently mixing so it doest stick to the pot, it will get thick like polenta, once its very thick add some oil or butter and mix it in and add some sour orange juice or lemons and then add the fresh mint leaves. its ready to eat

- you can mix in the meat that you previously prepared into the polenta or you can serve the meat on top of the polenta, either way is fine.

-indio viejo is always served with a fresh tomato sauce, usually made of fresh tomatoes,onion, garlic and olive oil that you cook in a sauce pan. splash the fresh tomato sauce over everyones bowl of indio viejo polenta.

-serve in bowls with fresh mint sprigs and sour orange or lemon wedges

note- since indio viejo is a polenta, you should cook it at the moment of serving, you shouldn’t prepare it earlier because the polenta will set in the pot like a mold if you keep it out or refrigerated.