With simple ingredients, great dishes can be made. Dishes like this chicken in pepper sauce roasted greens, inspired by a Mexican recipe. Traditionally they are prepared with chili peppers and pork, but who forbids us to substitute these for green peppers, cayenne peppers and chicken?
Necessity means that on many occasions we create versions of dishes that attract our attention. Either because it is not easy to find the original ingredients, or because we want to take advantage of some that we already have in the pantry, we end up substituting some. A great way to discover new alternatives to bring to the table like this one.
Chicken in roasted green pepper sauce
This chicken in roasted green pepper sauce is a version of a typical Mexican recipe. Eat it with a cup of rice or couscous.
Author Maria
Kitchen: Mexican
Recipe type: Hair
Rations: 6
Preparation time:
Cooking time:
Total time:
Ingredients
- 400 g. pear tomatoes
- 2 green peppers for roasting
- 1 serrano pepper or 1 cayenne pepper
- 1 red onion, quartered
- 2 cloves of garlic
- ⅓ cup of coriander
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 900 g. boneless skinless chicken
- Sal Island
- Black pepper
Preparation
- We preheat the oven to 220ºC.
- Place the tomatoes, green peppers, chili, onion and whole garlic cloves in the oven plate, previously drizzled with olive oil.
- We take to the oven and roast for 15 minutes. Then we turn them over and bake as many more minutes. If we see that the garlic or onion is burned, we remove them.
- When the peppers are tender, we remove them from the oven and we put in a bag to freeze so that they "sweat" and it is easier to peel them once they are tempered.
- When we can manipulate them, we remove the skin and the seeds of the peppers and peel the garlic cloves.
- We shred everything Roast it together with the juices from the baking tray and the coriander. We add broth until we achieve the desired consistency. We reserve
- In a frying pan with a little olive oil, brown the chicken over high heat seasoned.
- Once golden, we add the sauce and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and cook for 25-30 minutes until the chicken flakes easily.
- We serve with a cup of rice or couscous.