Orange-Flavored Chicken

Pollo con Naranja

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zarela's Veracruz: Mexico's Simplest Cuisine

By Zarela Martínez

Published 2001

  • About

The fruit wines and liqueurs of the xico area are one of the glories of the Veracruzan table. María del Carmen Virués de Izaguirre, the matriarch of Xico’s foremost liqueur-manufacturing family, gave me this recipe, along with the following one.

In this country, fruit liqueurs tend not to stand in high culinary esteem, because they often don’t taste natural — many are nothing more than commercial essences or concentrates combined with massive doses of high-proof alcohol and sugar sy