Chicken Argentina Recipes

CHICKEN ARGENTINA

Steps:

• Combine chicken and lime juice and marinate for 30 minutes.
• Lightly season chicken with salt and pepper.
• Heat oil in a large skillet.
• Add chicken and brown on all sides.
• Add onion, pepper, olives and orange juice.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer 30 minutes, or until chicken is tender and cooked through.
• Remove chicken to a serving platter and pour the pan juices over it.
• Top with almonds.

MILANESAS DE POLLO (ARGENTINIAN CHICKEN CUTLETS)

Steps:

• Slice each chicken breast in half horizontally and pound the thicker ends to 1/4 inch thick. Cut the bigger pieces in half; you want to end up with sandwich-size pieces.
• Beat the eggs in a medium bowl. Stir in the parsley, garlic, salt, and pepper. Sprinkle one side of the chicken pieces with salt and slip them into the beaten eggs. Mix with your hands to coat. The chicken can be cooked right away, or let marinate in the refrigerator up to overnight.
• Sprinkle some panko on a small rimmed baking sheet. Put a piece of chicken on top,and cover with more panko. Then, with your fist, pound the panko into the chicken to adhere. Pound slowly at first, and then a little harder, until the crumbs stick.
• Pour 1/4 inch of oil (about 1 cup) into a 10-inch nonstick skillet and heat over medium to medium-high heat. It's ready when a sprinkle of panko sizzles. Fry 1 to 2 cutlets at a time, without crowding, flipping only once, until nicely browned, about 3 minutes on the first side and 1 minute on the second. Transfer to a tray lined with paper towels.

ARGENTINE GRILLED LEMON CHICKEN

Steps:

• With meat scissors or a knife carefully remove the backbone by cutting up alongside the bone on either side.
• Open up the chicken and pound flat with a meat mallet to distribute the breast meat more proportionally to the size of the thighs for even cooking.
• Sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper.
• Loosen the skin from the meat but do not remove.
• Slice one lemon very thinly. Distribute the slices under the skin.
• Prepare a charcoal grill with coals only on one side of the grill.
• Place the chicken bone side down on the grill close to the coals but not over them. Cut remaining lemon in quarters. Squeeze one quarter over the chicken.
• Make a tent with foil to cover the chicken loosely but have one end hanging over the chicken and the coals. This will allow heat to flow up under the foil and over the chicken.
• Turn chicken one quarter turn every 15 minutes until all four side have faced the heat. Each time squeezing another quarter of lemon.
• Turn chicken skin side down directly over the coals for the last 15 minutes to brown.