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Dinner · 40 min · 4 bowls

Ajiaco

Bogotá chicken and potato pot. Corn stays on the cob if you have it. Cream off the heat, avocado at the table.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 40 min

easy

Why tonight. Bogotá chicken and potato pot. Corn stays on the cob if you have it. Cream off the heat, avocado at the table.

What it needs

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

  • chicken
  • potato
  • corn
  • onion
  • cream

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

Method

  1. Use two kinds of potato: one that dissolves to thicken the broth and one that holds its shape.
  2. That is the whole structural trick and it is why one-potato versions are thin.
  3. Chicken poached gently in the broth, never boiled, then shredded and returned.
  4. Cream and avocado at the table rather than in the pot, and corn on the cob in pieces.

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

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
potato
Waxy holds its shape, floury falls apart, and almost every potato complaint is the wrong one for the job.
corn
Sugar that starts turning to starch the moment it is picked, which is why frozen often beats fresh.
onion
The base under most of this library.
cream
Fat that carries flavor and will not split the way milk does, which is why it can be reduced hard.

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.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

Next

Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

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