Peruvian Chicken with Spicy Rice

Submitted by Sackville

"An all-in-one dish to tempt your tastebuds. The originaly recipe calls for frying the chicken, to give it a golden skin, but you could also try crisping it in the oven, to cut the fat."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 8 pieces chicken
• 1⁄2 cup oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 hot pepper, chopped (jalapeno or similar)
• 1 cup cilantro, blended
• 2 red peppers (1 chopped and the other in strips to decorate)
• 3 cups rice
• 1 cup peas
• 1⁄2 cup corn kernel
• 2 1⁄2 cups boiling water
• 1⁄2 cup beer
• salt and pepper

directions

1. Season chicken pieces with salt and pepper and shallow fry in oil until golden.
2. Remove chicken.
3. In the same pan, sauté garlic, onion, the chopped hot pepper and cilantro.
4. Return chicken pieces to pan, add beer and continue cooking until chicken is tender.
5. Remove pieces, keep them warm.
6. Add rice, peas, corn and peppers.
7. Pour water and cook at medium heat for 20 minutes more or until rice is done.
8. Serve rice with chicken pieces and garnish with pepper strips.

Reviews

[Donna]

Delicious!! I made this for my visiting parents, and I used a habanero from my garden, this was so good it was spicy but not over the top, I used a very dark hoppy beer, cuz thats what my husband drinks so it's all I had and it was just fantastic! This is one of my new favorite dishes, thanks so much!! I LOVE this!

 

[Alicia4097]

Overall, a good dish, but it was NOT spicy at all. I used one chopped jalapeno as directed. We have to put salsa in it to give it a kick. The flavor outside of that is very nice, though. The chicken was tasty and tender. Oh, and it also took more than 50 minutes for it to cook. I don't know if it's the rice we used or what, but the rice took FOREVER to get done cooking.

 

[chezchea]

I loved the rice more than chicken but that is a personal preference. My husband went crazy for this dish but I think it needs more salt at the end of cooking. Also it doesn't say, but I assumed you cover wihile rice cooks?????

 

[bethmcdougall]

Great recipe. Very flavorful. Just need to add salt and pepper at the end though.

 

[strong coffee]

Excellent! The rice was good enough to eat by itself! I didn't have all the ingredients on hand. I used garlic powder and a spicy pepper seasoning. I minced the tops from 1/2 a bunch of cilantro. I think any more would have been overpowering. Omitted the peas. This was very flavorful without being too hot/spicy.