Cack-Ik: Guatemalan Chicken simmered with Spices

[Roverticus]

Mysterious Guatemalan chicken, feeds a family of four.

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Ingredients

One Whole Chicken Cut into Pieces, use half chicken, save rest for tomorrow
4 miltomates (Tomatillo)
6 tomatoes
2/3 head of garlic, cloves skinned
3 chiles guaques or other Chile (I used Serrano)
1 teaspoon assorted dry herbs (oregano, thyme, mint)
2 cinnamon sticks
handful of Cilantro
handful of Scallions

The original recipe calls for 6 whole cloves, but this spice might overpower the dish.

Preparataion

Simmering Chicken in Garlic and Spice
1. In a medium pot, place chicken, garlic and cinnamon, fill with water to cover chicken, bring to a boil and simmer

Roasting for the Sauce
2. Meanwhile, roast tomatoes, tomatillos, chilies, and cilantro on a roasting pan in the oven at 400 for about 20-30 min. Make sure cilantro does not burn and the tomato and chili skin has begun to blister.

Saucing the Roast
3. Once thoroughly roasted, liquefy ingredients in food processor

Simmering with the Roasted Sauce
4. Add liquid roast to simmering chicken, bring to boil and simmer until the chicken is fully cooked, should take around 10-20 min. Remove Chicken from broth and serve with Gallo Pinto, salad and tortillas

Encore
Conserve broth in fridge for the next episode. Coming tomorrow.

For more detail and accompanying dishes: http://revpana.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/cack-ik-guatemalan-spiced-chicken/

[Warpy]

1. Yum!

I do a similar version of this, only with coins of fresh ginger or whole cloves instead of cinnamon sticks. Chicken is ridiculously hard to flavor and it's amazing what a "sweet" spice will do for it.