Ají de gallina

  • Gluten free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for lunch

Less suited for dinner.

Creamy Peruvian chicken with milk and walnuts.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,450 g

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Ingredients

  • 700 gChicken, broiler or fryers, breast, skinless, boneless, meat only, raw
  • 150 gOnions, raw
  • 400 gTomatoes, red, ripe, canned, packed in tomato juice
  • 25 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 350 gMilk, whole, 3.25% milkfat, with added vitamin D
  • 80 gNuts, walnuts, english
  • 4 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Cut chicken into 3 cm pieces; chop onion and blend walnuts with milk until smooth.
  2. Fry chicken and onion in oil at 175 °C for 8 minutes.
  3. Add tomatoes, walnut milk and salt; simmer at 90 °C for 15 minutes until chicken centre is 74 °C.
  4. Rest 5 minutes and serve with all creamy juices.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
1,921.7 kcal
Protein
185.5 g
Fat
108 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
55.7 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
15.5 g
Saturated fatty acids
19 g
Sodium
2,483.9 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
6.2 g

Per serving

Energy
480.4 kcal
Protein
46.4 g
Fat
27 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
13.9 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
3.9 g
Saturated fatty acids
4.8 g
Sodium
621 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.6 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
132.5 kcal
Protein
12.8 g
Fat
7.5 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
3.8 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
1.1 g
Saturated fatty acids
1.3 g
Sodium
171.3 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.43 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Milk, Tree nuts

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal