Showing posts with label Latin American recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latin American recipes. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 March 2016

Argentinian chicken

Ingredients

6 pieces of chicken
A bunch of leaves of parsley
Garlic to taste, peeled. I used 6 fat cloves of garlic
Half a medium size onion, peeled and roughly chopped
2 teaspoons of dried oregano
1 heaped teaspoon of paprika powder
1 large red sweet pepper, deseeded
¼ cup of olive oil
3 tablespoons of white wine vinegar.
2 heaped teaspoons of chicken stock powder

Method


Preheat the oven to 180° C (350° F - gas 4), [fan oven 160° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour]
Put the chicken in an oven tray
Put the rest of the ingredients in the blender and blend for 2 minutes
Try to check taste
Pour it over chicken
Cover with a lid or tin-foil
Put it in the top of the oven for 45 minutes
Check the chicken is properly cooked
Enjoy!



Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Ensalada de coditos

Ingredients

300 g coditos (pasta) - see Variations below
1 tin of tuna in oil (drained weight 130 g), mashed
Mayonnaise, using 500 ml olive oil
2 tbsp of Cream
500 g firm tomatoes, thinly sliced
A handful of black olives, pitted
1 egg, hard boiled, finely chopped or put through a sieve
Parsley, finely chopped

Method

Boil the coditos for about 15 minutes or per packet instructions.
Rinse under cold water and drain thoroughly.
When the pasta is cold, mix with the tuna, Cream and mayonnaise and place in the middle of a serving dish.
Arrange the tomato slices around the pasta and place the olives on top of it.
Sprinkle with the hard boiled egg. and the parsley.