Gallina en Pepitoria

Name: Gallina en Pepitoria (Chicken in Almond Sauce)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons olive oil; 1 or 2 sprigs parsley; 5½ lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces; Flour; Salt; 2 oz. blanched almonds; 2 teaspoons lime, or lemon, juice; ¼ teaspoon white pepper; ¾ pint chicken stock; 4 whole cloves; 2 eggs; 1 clove garlic; chopped; 2-inch piece stick cinnamon; 1 medium onion, finely chopped; 1 large tomato, peeled, seeded and chopped

Chicken in Almond Sauce

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking

By Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz

Published 1973

About

Ingredients

5½ lb. chicken, cut into serving pieces
Flour
3 tablespoons olive oil

Americas
Main course
Caribbean
Puerto Rico

Method

Dredge the chicken pieces with flour, shaking to remove the excess. Heat the oil in a frying pan and sauté the chicken until golden. Transfer to a heavy casserole. Sauté the onion and garlic in the frying pan and add to the chicken together with the tomato, parsley, cinnamon, cloves and chicken stock. Pulverize the almonds in an electric blender at high speed and add to the casserole. Season wi