Ají de Gallina (Spanish for chili pepper chicken) is a traditional Peruvian food which has its roots in the social upheaval of the French Revolution in 1789.
This is a shredded chicken dish in a spicy sauce flavored with onions, garlic, nuts and Peruvian chili peppers. Peruvians love eating this dish every day possible.
Ingredients :
1 chicken breast (boiled and shredded)
2 pounds of crackers
1 can of evaporated milk
1 cup of water
3 aji amarillo or yellow peppers seeded and deveined
1 red onion (chop the 3/4 on diced)
1 teaspoon of ground saffron
salt
3 tablespoons oil
2 cups chicken broth or chicken
1 pound of boiled potato, peeled and sliced
2 boiled eggs and sliced
4 black olives
2 cups of cooked rice
Preparation:
Boil the breast chicken on 3 cups of water until cook, add some salt and some accent, then take the chicken out of the pan and shredded, save the chicken broth for the mix.
Put in a blender the crackers, milk and pepper 1/4 of the onion.
And blend until creamy.
In a pan heat the oil to add the diced onion and saffron and let brown
Add the chicken broth and bring to boil.
When is boiling add the cream and mix until get thicken.
Once thickened add the chicken.
Serve on a bed of potato slices and garnish with the eggs sliced and black olives.
