Sancocho Soup

Ingredients

• of soup meat
  1 to 1½ pounds
• soup chicken. (cut up into serving pieces)
  1 medium
• of cooking ham or ham steak. (diced into one inch square pieces)
  1 pound
• to two pounds of pork spare ribs. (separated and cut in half)
  1 unit
• of chorizo (They usually come two in a package

  unless your butcher carries them fresh in that case get four of them)
  2 packages
• of yautia

  peeled rinsed and cut into quarters
  1 pound
• green plantains peeled and cut into thirds
  6 unit
• malanga about two pounds peeled and cut into two-inch pieces
  1 unit
• of yuca peeled and cut into quarters
  1 pound
• four or five green bananas peeled and cut in half
  1 unit
• of sofrito
  1 cup
• of oregano
  6 tablespoons
• salt and pepper to taste
  1 unit
• of tomato sauce
  1 can
• of tomato paste
  4 tablespoons
• of cold water
  6 quarts
• of olive oil
  4 tablespoons
• of white vinegar
  2 tablespoons
• jar of Spanish olives
  1 medium