Best Easy Asopao De Pollo Chicken And Rice Stew Recipes

ASOPAO DE POLLO

Steps:

• Season chicken thighs with black pepper and adobo seasoning.
• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Cook and stir green pepper, red pepper, onion, garlic, and tomato paste in the hot oil, until the vegetables have softened slightly, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove vegetables from the pot and set aside.
• Pan fry chicken in the pot until browned, 4 to 5 minutes on each side. Return cooked vegetables to the pot along with rice, diced tomatoes, chicken broth, bay leaf, and red pepper flakes. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until rice is tender and chicken is no longer pink inside, about 20 minutes.
• Stir in peas and olives and cook for another 5 minutes. Remove from heat and discard bay leaf. Stir in cilantro and serve.

ASOPAO DE POLLO (PUERTO RICAN CHICKEN AND RICE STEW)

Steps:

• For the sofrito: Roughly chop the garlic, onion, ham, bell pepper and sweat them in 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Add the tomato paste, achiote paste or sazon goya, oregano, salt, pepper, and vinegar cook for about 5 more minutes. Once cooked, puree it in the blender or food processor. Make the stock and cook the chicken: Cook the chicken in 9 cups of water, and the rest of the stock ingredients except the taro roots or potatoes and chopped carrot. Cook for 30 minutes. Be careful not to boil or the chicken will get stringy. Once its cooked, take out the onions and the garlic. At this time you can shred the chicken. Make the asopao: Return the chicken to the stock and add the taro root or potatoes cut in 1/2 inch pieces, the carrots, capers, olives, sofrito, and the rice (which has been previously soaking in water for 30 minutes.) Cook the asopao for about 25-30 minutes. Serve with garnishes.

PUERTO RICAN ASOPAO DE POLLO

Steps:

• Grind all the Adobo ingredients together in a mortar and pestle or food processor to make a paste.
• In a cast-iron or heavy skillet, heat ½ cup olive oil. When very hot, add annatto seeds. Turn heat to low, continue cooking, stirring frequently, for approximately 5 minutes, until oil is a rich orange-red color. Allow to cool, then strain into a clean glass container. Set aside. Discard seeds.
• Whir all Sofrito ingredients in a blender until chopped.
• Add 1/4 part of the sofrito with the vinegar to the adobo mixture in a bowl and blend well. Rub the mixture over the chicken pieces. Let marinate in the refrigerator overnight. Place remaining sofrito mixture in tight lidded container and refridgerate.
• In a soup pot, heat the achiote oil. Add remaining 3/4 part of the sofrito. Cook for 2 minutes.
• Add chicken. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently to ensure that all the pieces of chicken are seasoned. Continue cooking a few minutes more until the chicken is opaque.
• Add the white wine and tomato sauce and stir well, then add the rice, water, capers, olives, bay leaves, oregano, and salt. Return the mixture to a boil, then lower heat and simmer, covered, 20 to 25 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.

ASOPAO DE POLLO - CARIBBEAN CHICKEN AND RICE

Steps:

• Sear chicken pieces and diced onion in a deep 12" skillet or dutch oven. (You may have to use two pans if it doesn't fit in one; dividing the spices, broth, tomatoes etc between the two pans.).
• Add broth, salt, oregano, coriander,blended tomatoes, onion, and garlic.
• Heat to boiling; reduce heat.
• Cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Cook rice according to directions on bag, except add chicken broth where it calls for water.
• While the rice is cooking add peas, green pepper, ham, olives, capers and 1 tablespoon of the caper liquid to chicken dish.
• Cover and simmer the chicken dish until the rice is done.
• Serve the chicken on top of the rice, pour the sauce over and sprinkle with parmesan.