from Ron

[Kitchen Witch]

Last week I wanted to try something different so I chose another recipe from our sister site - SMR - from the Quick and Easy recipes we get daily.

This is the recipe from SMR - changes I made noted below:


Chicken of St. Marcos


1 chicken
Salt, as needed
1 onion
1 garlic clove
1 lb potatoes
1/2 cup lard
3 chorizo sausages
1 head lettuce
18 pickled serrano chiles
=== SAUCE ===
1 1/2 lbs tomatoes
2 cups chicken broth
1 stick cinnamon
1 clove
2 peppercorns
1/4 tsp dried oregano
4 Tbs vinegar
3 onions
Salt, to taste



1 Clean the chicken, cut into sections, and cook in water to cover with salt, 1 onion and 1 clove garlic. Boil the potatoes separately and slice. When the chicken is tender, drain, dip in the sauce (below) and brown in hot lard together with the potatoes. On each serving plate place a portion of chicken, some slices of potato, a little sauce and a slice chorizo or crumbled chorizo. Garnish with lettuce leaves and pickled chiles.
2 Sauce: Cook the tomatoes in the broth until tender. Mash with the broth in which they were cooked, then grind together with the cinnamon stick, clove and peppercorns. Add the finely chopped onion, vinegar and salt.


Servings: 6


What I did: I used homemade chorizo which made it extra special, and yes, I did use lard - it gave it that good flavor.

The lettuce was used to make a nice green salad and we didn't have pickled chiles.


This was a very good dish and we will have it again!