Peruvian Pollo Saltado (Chicken Stir-Fry)

Peruvian Pollo Saltado (Chicken Stir-Fry)

I like learning how to cook Peruvian food because it is one of my favorite food. Usually I make lomo saltado (beef stir fry) but this time I made it with chicken. When you eat lomo saltado in Peruvian restaurants, you eat it with fries and rice. When I make it for friends, I don’t make fries and they eat it with brown or white rice but for the first time I made roasted potatoes for my cousin.

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons of olive oil

1 organic red onion

2 organic tomatoes

3 chicken breasts

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

2 tablespoons of rice vinegar or white wine vinegar

Himalayan salt

pepper

Instructions:

1.       The night before cooking, put the frozen chicken breasts from the freezer in a plate and put it in the refrigerator and thaw it. But if you just bought the chicken breasts and cooking right away, no need to thaw and put it in the refrigerator.

2.       Cut the onions and tomatoes in thin slices

3.       Take out the chicken breasts from the refrigerator. Cut the chicken breasts in half and then cut it in long strips. After, cut the long strips in three strips and season it with salt and pepper.

4.       Turn on the stove in high heat and when it’s hot, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil in pan and then brown the chicken breasts. After browning the chicken, put it aside.

5.       Add one tablespoon of olive oil in the pan, add onions and cook it until it’s translucent. Then add the tomatoes, and the chicken breasts. Mixed it all together and low heat to medium heat.

6.       Add two tablespoons of soy sauce, and add two tablespoons of rice vinegar to the chicken.

7.       Mixed it all together. Let it boil a bit, then turn off the heat and the dish is done.

Note: you can use less sodium soy sauce and use 2 teaspoons for the olive oil, soy sauce, and rice vinegar if you want to make the dish healthier.

Recipe inspired from: http://perudelights.com/pollo-saltado-chicken-stir-fry-sacred-flavors-for-sacred-days/

Roasted Potatoes:

Ingredients:

 6 baby red potatoes

Himalayan salt

pepper

2 tablespoons of olive oil

Instructions:

1.       Wash the potatoes and cut it in quarters.

2.       Put it in a bowl and add two tablespoons of olive oil, salt, and pepper to the potatoes.

3.       Preheat the oven at 375 degrees

4.       Add the potatoes in a baking pan

5.       Put the baking pan in the oven and baked it for an hour. Depending on your oven, it might cook faster or slower so check the potatoes when it’s been bake for 30 minutes, and if it’s not brown then add more cooking time.

6.       When the potatoes are brown then it’s done.

Note: You can also add rosemary for the roasted potatoes to make it flavorful. You can roast sweet potatoes instead of potatoes to eat with the pollo saltado or eat it with brown rice if you want to make it healthier.