Description
About this product
Gedroogde Aji Amarillo is a dried yellow chili pepper from Peru. Aji amarillo is a common ingredient in Peruvian cooking.
Usage and preparation
Use the dried peppers to add heat and colour to dishes. Below is a recipe for spicy chicken in cream sauce (aji de gallina).
Ingredients needed:
- 1 kg chicken
- 1 onion
- 100 g Parmesan cheese
- 1 can evaporated milk
- 4 dried yellow ajies
- 6 slices of sandwich bread
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 1 tablespoon red Peruvian pepper
- pepper and cumin
- salt to taste
Preparation:
- Fry the onion, garlic, pepper and cumin until brown. Add the aji amarillo and aji panca.
- Once the spices are golden brown, add the chicken, already cooked and shredded. Stir.
- Add the previously soaked bread, ground or blended. Mix.
- Add the milk and a cup of broth (the liquid the chicken was cooked in) and stir the mixture.
- Add the Parmesan cheese. Stir until the mixture thickens and firm bubbles form.
- Serve with slices of hard-boiled egg, a slice of boiled potato and rice.
Ingredients
Nutritional values
| Nutritional value | per 100 g |
| Energy | 1617 kJ |
| Fat | 12 g |
| of which saturates | 0 g |
| Carbohydrate | 61 g |
| of which sugars | 0 g |
| Protein | 8 g |
| Salt | 0 g |
