Colombian chicken sancocho

Step 1 of 4

Divide chicken into eight smaller pieces; cut potatoes, sweet potato, banana and corn into large pieces.

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15 min

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Ingredients

  • 900 gChicken, broilers or fryers, thigh, meat and skin, raw
  • 500 gPotatoes, flesh and skin, raw
  • 400 gSweet potato, raw, unprepared (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)
  • 300 gBananas, raw
  • 500 gCorn, sweet, yellow, raw
  • 160 gOnions, raw
  • 1,700 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 7 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Divide chicken into eight smaller pieces; cut potatoes, sweet potato, banana and corn into large pieces.
  2. Bring chicken, onion, 1700 g water and salt to 95 °C and cook covered 45 minutes; meat must reach 74 °C.
  3. Add the potatoes and sweet potatoes and cook covered for 15 minutes at 95 °C.
  4. Add the banana and corn and cook covered for another 12 minutes. Serve with all the broth.