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Sudado de pollo

Colombian “sweated” chicken: braised with tomato, onion, garlic and potatoes in its own juices.

Sudado de pollo
Close to the base recipe Mild

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Recipe-1 is one simple curry recipe in nine steps: fry onions and green chillies, add your vegetables or meat, add chilli powder and turmeric, then water and salt, and boil. With small changes the same nine steps make curries from all over the world.

This page takes those nine steps and shows what to change to make Sudado de pollo. You don’t need to read anything else first: every base step is written out below. The changes are worked out on paper from what is typical for this dish; not yet kitchen-tested. Cooked it? Tell others how it went.

Green: the base recipe step (crossed out = do not use it for this dish)Red: what to do instead for Sudado de pollo

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You’ll need

How many people?4

The amounts change with the number of people; cooking times stay about the same (use a bigger pot for more). Taste as you go: you can always add more chilli or salt, but you cannot take it out.

Main ingredient: 1 kg Chicken pieces.

From the base recipe

  • 1 Onions
  • 1 Green chillies
  • 2 tbsp Cooking oil
  • Red chilli powder not used
  • Turmeric not used
  • 1 tsp · 200 ml Salt and water
  • Ginger garlic paste not used
  • Cloves, cardamom and cinnamon not used
  • Garam masala (optional) not used

Add for Sudado de pollo

  • 3 Tomatoes
  • 3 Spring onions
  • 3 Garlic
  • 1 tsp · 1 tsp Cumin and achiote (annatto)
  • 500 g · 300 g Potatoes and cassava (yuca)

Leave out

  • Chilli powder
  • Whole spices
  • Garam masala

The nine steps, with the changes

Where a step has a red line, do the red line and not the crossed-out green base step. Steps with only green are done just as in the base recipe.

  1. Base step: do not useCut onions and chillies.

    Sudado de pollo: do thisChop the onions and spring onions; one mild chilli is enough.

  2. Base step: do not useFry in some oil for around 4 minutes on medium-high heat.

    Sudado de pollo: do thisFry with garlic and tomatoes into a hogao sauce.

  3. Base step: do not useCut the vegetable(s) of your choice.

    Sudado de pollo: do thisCut the potatoes and cassava.

  4. Base step: do not useAdd them and fry for around 4 minutes on medium-high heat.

    Sudado de pollo: do thisAdd the chicken.

  5. Base step: do not useAdd red chilli powder and turmeric.

    Sudado de pollo: do thisAdd cumin and achiote instead of chilli powder and turmeric.

  6. Keep frying until just before they start browning.

  7. Base step: do not useAdd some water.

    Sudado de pollo: do thisAdd a little water.

  8. Add salt.

  9. Base step: do not useBoil until the gravy is as thick as you like.

    Sudado de pollo: do thisCover and simmer 35 minutes with the potatoes until tender.

Serve: With rice and avocado.

For meat and seafood, make sure it is cooked through: chicken until no pink remains inside; mutton, goat and beef need long, slow cooking.

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Food marks, as on packaged food in India: vegetarian · non-vegetarian (meat, fish or egg). Dishes with both marks can be made either way.

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