Peruvian Pineapple Chicken (Pollo a la Piña)

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Fried battered chicken medallions glazed in a sweet pineapple sauce mixed with pineapple chuncks, slices of red bell pepper, and green onions with warm Latino spices.

Submitted by tooth
Published on February 4, 2020
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Prep Time:
10 mins
Cook Time:
40 mins
Total Time:
50 mins
Servings:
4
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Ingredients

  • 1. 3 Chicken breasts cut into bitesize medallions

  • 2. 1 tsp salt

  • 3. 1/2 tsp garlic powder

  • 4. 1/2 tsp ground pepper

  • 5. 1 1/2 TBS soy sauce

  • 6. 1/2 tsp cumin

  • 7. 1 1/2 cup sugar

  • 8. 20 oz. can pineapple chunks in syrup

  • 9. 12 oz. package of Potato Starch (Harina de Chuño, Doña Isabel). You can also substitute with Corn Starch.

  • 10. 1 Red Bell pepper, pitted, and cut into slices

  • 11. 2 oz Green Onions cut into slices.

  • 12. 2 TBS tomato paste

Directions

  1. Combine chicken, salt, garlic powder, pepper, soy sauce, and cumin in a bowl. Thoroughly mix together and set aside to marinate. It does not need to marinate for long.

  2. In a medium sized pot, combine sugar and pineapple chuncks along with the syrup in the can and bring to a boil. After boiling for a few minutes, separate the pineapple chunks and syrup and set both aside.

  3. Cut the red bell pepper into slices and the green onions into chives. Set both aside.

  4. Roll the marinated chicken around in the potato starch and pan fry in vegetable oil until golden brown and crunchy. This is the most time consuming part. It is important that the chicken is fried until the batter becomes crunchy for a desirable texture. Once fried, allow the chicken to drain so that the medallions are not so oily. Set aside.

  5. In a wok, fry the tomato paste in a tsp of vegetable oil, stirring frequently until the paste gets a little bit darker, but not burnt. Add the bell peppers and fry briefly to keep the peppers crispy. Mix in the fried chicken and pineapple chunks. Slowly mix in some of the syrup until the mixture looks like as if glazed with honey. You probably won't use all the syrup. Finally, mix in the green onions and serve with a side of white rice.