🇵🇪 How to Make Ají de Gallina

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🛒 Ingredients

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• 3 chicken breasts, poached and shredded
• 4 slices white bread, soaked in 200ml milk
• 3 tbsp ají amarillo paste
• 1 onion and 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 50g walnuts
• 50g grated parmesan
• boiled potato, rice, olives and boiled egg to serve

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Poach the chicken in seasoned water, keep the stock, and shred the meat by hand.
2. Fry the onion and garlic slowly until sweet, then stir in the ají amarillo paste and cook 3 min.
3. Blitz the soaked bread, walnuts and the onion mixture with a little stock until completely smooth.
4. Return to the pan, add the chicken and enough stock to make a thick, spoonable sauce.
5. Stir in the parmesan off the heat.
6. Serve over boiled potato with rice, a black olive and half a boiled egg. It should be creamy and mildly warm, not fiery.