Recipe
Chicken Fricasé with Butter and Beer
Cuban chicken fricasé with a distinct touch: butter and beer, potatoes, olives and raisins in a very tasty tomato sauce.
- Preparation15 min
- Cooking30 min
- Total time45 min
- Servings4 servings
- DifficultyEasy
Chicken fricasé is a very common dish on the Cuban table. This version is very rich and has a different touch from the traditional one, because it includes butter and beer.
Some ingredients may vary according to each cook's taste, but there are three almost mandatory in a good Cuban fricasé: chicken, tomato sauce and potatoes. Yes, potatoes, because there is nothing like sinking the fork into a potato from the fricasé.
Ingredients
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Method
- Remove the skin from the chicken pieces and season them with salt, pepper and complete seasoning.
- Put the butter in a pot and sauté the chicken.
- Add the beer and let it cook over medium heat.
- Meanwhile, in another pan prepare a sofrito with the onion, garlic, chopped tomato, bell pepper and ají cachucha. Stir and let it cook for a few minutes.
- Add the tomato sauce and cilantro to the sofrito.
- Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes.
- Add the sofrito to the chicken, along with the potatoes, olives and raisins.
- Cover with water and let it cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes.
- Serve the fricasé with white rice and a salad of tomato, cucumber and avocado. Enjoy!
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