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Dinner · 35 min · 4 bowls

Ají de gallina

Peruvian shredded chicken in a bread-nut-chili sauce. Yellow chili would be right; chili flakes and a little cheese get you there. It should coat, not soup.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 35 min

easy

Why tonight. Peruvian shredded chicken in a bread-nut-chili sauce. Yellow chili would be right; chili flakes and a little cheese get you there. It should coat, not soup.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • chicken
  • bread
  • milk
  • walnuts
  • chili flakes

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: parmesan.

Method

  1. Bread soaked in milk and blended is what thickens this — no flour and no cream go into it.
  2. Poach the chicken gently and shred it by hand, and keep the poaching liquid for the sauce.
  3. Walnuts and cheese blended in give it body and a faint grain, which is correct.
  4. Chili paste bloomed in oil first. Serve it over rice with a boiled egg and an olive.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
bread
Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.
milk
Softness and a little sweetness.
walnuts
Bitter as well as rich, and that bitterness is the point in a sweet dish.
chili flakes
Heat you can dose. Bloomed in oil they spread through everything; scattered at the table they stay sharp and sit on top. Same flakes, two different dishes.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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