Horse meat stew in tomato sauce

Ingredients

• 1 kg of horse meat
• extra virgin olive oil
• 1 cup of tomato sauce
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 1 stalk of celery
• One bunch of parsley
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 hot chili pepper
• a few peppercorns
• salt
• Grilled country bread, for serving

Cut the meat into pieces that are not too small and brown it in olive oil with a little chopped onion, until it is well browned.

Add the tomato sauce, the remaining chopped onion, carrots, and celery, the parsley, bay leaf, chili pepper, black peppercorns, and salt.

Transfer to a heavy-bottomed earthenware pot and simmer over very low heat for at least 2 hours, or until the meat is tender.

Serve with grilled slices of country bread.