Garlic chicken

Name: Garlic chicken (Pollo asado)
Cuisine: Venezuelan
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken, about 1 kg/2¼ lb in weight; 1 lime quartered; 2-3 spring onions (scallions), chopped; 2-3 spring onions (scallions), chopped; 15 ml/1 tbsp butter; 2-3 garlic cloves, chopped; 2.5 ml/½ tsp ground cumin; 5 ml/1 tsp salt; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp ground black pepper; 15 ml/1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce; white rice, to serve

Pollo asado

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Colombia and Venezuela

By Patricia McCausland-Gallo

Published 2015

About

Grilled chicken joints are popular in asaderos - restaurants with huge charcoal grills where Colombian families love to eat at weekends. At home it is more convenient to roast a whole chicken in the oven and joint it at the table, but you can still use the same delicious flavourings. Serve with white rice and perhaps a tomato salad.

Ingredients

1 whole chicken, about 1 kg/2¼ lb in weight
1 lime qu

Americas
Venezuela
Colombia
Main course
Gluten-free
South America

Method

Wash and dry the chicken and rub it inside and out with the lime quarters.
Put the spring onions into a blender or food processor with the butter, garlic, cumin, salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce. Process to a paste. Ease the chicken skin away