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Pollo en Barbacoa Chicken Barbacoa
Chicken pieces braised in the oven under an adobo of guajillo, tomato, tomatillo, toasted garlic and warm spices with avocado leaves, until the meat falls apart in a pan-sauce consistency. A Christmas dinner favourite.
- YieldServes 4 to 6
- Hands-on50 min
- Total2 h 19 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
Adobo
- 10guajillo chiles, about 50 g, stems and seeds removed
- 1 Lwater, boiling, for steeping the chiles
- 10 clovesgarlic, peeled
- 50 gwhite onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup)
- ¼ tspblack peppercorns
- 3whole cloves
- 1 piececinnamon stick, one thin sliver
- 1 tbspdried oregano
- 180 gtomatoes, chopped (about 1 cup)
- 50 gtomatillos, husked and rinsed
- 60 mlwater, for cooking the tomatoes and tomatillos
- 1 tbspsea salt
Chicken
- 1whole chicken, about 1 kg, cut into eight pieces, trimmed of excess fat and skin
- 10 leavesavocado leaves
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