Caribbean Chicken - Pollo Caribeno

Caribbean Chicken - Pollo Caribeno

Costa Rican Recipes
17 min
86 kcal / serving

This traditional Caribbean chicken recipe from Costa Rica uses chicken thighs flavored with coconut milk, lime and cane sugar for a delightful and unique flavor.

Ingredients

  • for the chicken
  • 6 largechicken thighs
  • 1lime or 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 5garlic cloves
  • 1 ½ tablespoonsmustard
  • ½ teaspoonblack pepper
  • 1 tablespoonsazon completa (see notes)
  • 1 teaspoonyellow curry powder
  • cumin
  • 1 tablespoonsalt
  • 1 tablespoonsalsa lizano
  • 3 tablespoonsvegetable oil
  • 3 tablespoonsbrown sugar
  • for the sauce
  • 1 stickcelery
  • ½yellowed onion - julienned
  • ½sweet red pepper -julienned
  • 2 smalltomatoes, diced
  • each salt and pepper
  • ½ teaspoonyellow curry powder
  • 1 ½ cupcoconut milk (see notes)
  • ¼ cupfresh thyme (can substitute 1 tablespoon ground)
  • cumin
  • salsa lizano to taste
  • ½habanero peppers, whole
  • 1 cupwater
  • 3 tablespoonsketchup

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