How much does it cost to do it at home?

LMNeuquén He toured different greengrocers, butcher shops and supermarkets in search of obtaining the prices of each of the ingredients of this exquisite dish that is traditional for the celebration of Labor Day in Argentina.

Among the legumes needed is white corn. Half a kilo of this product is, on average, 1,560 pesos. Pallares bean is one of the products that increased its prices the most, according to the merchants consulted: it costs more than double that of last year. This year, half a kilo of these beans costs 4,800 pesos.

The recipe for this traditional dish has pumpkin as its main ingredient. To make a loaded pot for six people to eat, you need about two kilos of pumpkin, which in different grocery stores costs around 500 pesos per kilo.

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With the squash, the lima beans and the white corn the bill already amounted to 7,360 pesos. Of the vegetables, there are about three onions missing, the celery and the green onion, for the decoration, which costs 1,300 pesos at the Barby greengrocer on 2700 San Martín Street.

To cook a tasty locro you need a kilo of osso buco, which costs around 5 thousand pesos; 400 grams of smoked bacon that has a value of 6 thousand pesos; a red chorizo ​​that has an average value of 7 thousand pesos and half a kilo of pork chorizo, which costs about 4 thousand pesos. The total sum is 30,660 pesos, which may vary up or down depending on the recipe followed to make this dish.

Furthermore, to savor the first locro of the year, you cannot miss the spicy sauce. The cooks of this dish always add a slightly spicy oil at the end, which does not lack finely chopped green onion.

Families that do not have a cook who knows how to make this dish will be able, like every year, to buy it at a rotisserie or social club that has made this dish to sell.

The portions this year will be between 6,000 and 10,000 pesos per person, so – as always – making it at home will be a little cheaper and will also be more profitable for those who are not satisfied with just one dish. and they want to make sure they repeat it.