Pollo Saltado

Peruvian Pollo Saltado Recipe

Tired of eating red meat? Do you want a different lunch? If the answer is yes, then this chicken stir fry recipe is for you. It is an exquisite emblematic dish of Peruvian gastronomy, perfect for those days when you are looking for the ordinary and surprise our guests. Do you want to learn how to prepare it? Let's do it!

How to Prepare Salted Chicken

This chicken lomo saltado preparation is inspired by the traditional lomo saltado recipe. For this reason we know that it is delicious, easy and quick to make. What's more, We always keep in mind the added value of this dish for being indigenous to Peru.

Ingredients

• 1 and 1/2 cup of rice
• 1/2 kilo of white potato
• 4 chicken breasts
• 1/2 cup of chopped green beans
• 1/2 cup cauliflower
• 1 carrot cut
• 1 tomato cut
• 2 onions cut
• 1 pepper cut
• 2 tsp minced garlic
• 1 tbsp ground red pepper
• 1 tbsp ground yellow pepper
• 1 tbsp ground coriander
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• Salt and pepper to taste
• cumin to taste
• Parsley

Method

1. How to prepare the Chicken Stir Fry? Simple, start by preparing the rice. Later wash, peel and chop the potatoes into thin pieces. Put to fry
2. In a pot, place a splash of oil and once it is hot, add the vegetables: the red pepper, the yellow pepper, the onion cut into small squares, the ground garlic and the coriander.
3. Then, one at a time, add the chopped chicken. Put pepper, cumin, iodized salt and mix very well to integrate everything.
4. Then add the green beans, cauliflower, carrot, tomato, onion and pepper to the chicken preparation. Cook for approximately 5 minutes and check the seasoning.
5. To finish, serve the dish accompanied by French fries and white rice. add chopped parsley on top. Ready!

Now that you know how to make this delicious chicken stir fry, here you are. 3 amazing tips to further enhance the flavor of this dish.

Tips and tricks

• You can mix the Saltado de Pollo with the rice. It will be impregnated with the sauces and the flavor will be very delicious.
• It is recommended, given the speed with which the chicken is ready, to fry the potatoes beforehand so that both preparations are almost at the same time.
• A little grated ginger can be added to the preparation according to taste. This will give it a very typical touch of Chinese cuisine.

Additional information

This exquisite dish was born as a variation of the traditional Peruvian dish that we call salted loin , the same as It has been emblematic in the country for a long time. These dishes come to us from the origin of our inclusion of the Chinese-Cantonese, as there are records that affirm these preparations as beef tenderloin, chorrillana tenderloin or salted tenderloin.

The chicken loin saltado is a dish that makes clear the Asian influence in our Peruvian Creole cuisine, as it is the result of the incredible mix between cultures. The use of the technique of stir fry popularly known as jumped off in Peru, alternated with flavors very typical of our land.

L he saltado technique is where the weight of gastronomic influence and fusion falls. The variants can be numerous, but the type of cooking remains the same. Actually the stir-fry technique comes from France; however, the stir fry process of wok-frying was brought to us by Chinese-Cantonese immigrants.

Now, why do we recommend its preparation? The answer is simple: its speed, simplicity and good taste. Although the preparation is very fast, the delicious chicken stir-fry could be considered exquisite. There is no way that a lunch is not good for us if we have chosen this recipe as the protagonist.

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