With that aroma of freshly cooked yerba buena, anyone can discover the name of this exquisite Nicaraguan dish, «arroz aguado».
In Nicaragua, apart from being very rich, it is also economical to make this dish, since it increases and yields more. Many of us like this recipe for chicken, but it can also be made from beef and pork. To everyone’s liking.
Ingredients for making watery rice
- 2 1/2 pounds of Chicken
- 2 pounds of whole rice
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 of Yerba good
- Achiote to taste
- Half an Onion
- 4 tomatoes
- 2 chiltomas
- Sour Orange to taste
- 1 crushed garlic clove
How to prepare Nicaraguan Chicken and Rice Stew
- First we clean the chicken with sour orange and salt, after that we put it to cook with 2 liters of water and add the onion, the clove of garlic, the tomatoes and the chiltoma.
- After that, when the chicken is soft, we add the washed rice, and a little bit of sour orange to taste and the achoite to give it that red
- color. Let the rice burst.
- When the rice is at the point we continue adding the sour to taste and a little salt. And we end up adding the yerba buena and we leave it resting for 5 or 6 minutes, always maintaining the consistency of being sopiadito.
- Then we serve it in a few cups of soups and savor our exquisite watered rice.
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