Merry White

Pollo al Jerez

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Cooking for Crowds
Cooking for Crowds

By Merry White

Published 1974

  • About

This is a Spanish recipe, interpreted by a Puerto Rican cook. It is important to use good sherry (not necessarily an expensive sherry) for this recipe—a medium sweet will do. It can soak into the chicken for two days, if you’d like a more pervasive sherry taste.

Ingredients

6 12</

Method

Wash the chicken pieces, then pat them dry. Place the chicken in a deep glass or nonporous glazed bowl. Add the sherry, cover, and let sit overnight, or longer, in the refrigerator. When ready to cook, remove the sherried chicken from the refrigerator, and drain, reserving the sherry.

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