Name: Ajiaco – Colombian chicken and potato soup
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Colombia
Ingredients: 1 x 1.65–1.8 kg chicken; 2 litres hot chicken stock; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 500 g small new or salad potatoes, scrubbed and cut into quarters; 3 corn-on-the-cobs, each cut into 3 chunks; 4 spring onions, finely sliced; 3 Maris Piper potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced; a small teacup of dried guascas leaves; 1–2 ripe avocados, sliced; 175 ml double cream; ½ jar small capers, rinsed well and drained; salt and pepper to season; a handful of coriander leaves, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

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Prue

By Prue Leith

Published 2018

About

Ajiaco is a wonderful one-course meal. As you’d expect, it has typical South American ingredients: corn, avocado, two kinds of potato. It’s easy to make, looks lovely, is healthy, and none of your friends will have heard of it. The only downside is that the distinctive flavour, which is just perfect, comes from a common Colombian herb called guascas, which you won’t find in any supermarket. Since it’s what makes the soup taste Colombian it’s worth getting online from La Chatica Deli Shop (<