Peruvian Shredded chicken and cilantro sauce

Name: Peruvian Shredded chicken and cilantro sauce
Total time: 18000 s
Yield: 4-6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 tbs olive oil (plus more if needed); 3 medium onions, halved and thinly sliced; 4 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed; 1 sweet potato peeled and diced (optional); Handful roughly chopped cilantro (more for garnish); 3-4 scallions diced (more for garnish); 2 limes, 1 halved, 1 into wedges for serving; 2 tsp cumin; 1 tbs dried oregano; 1 tbs salt (more to taste once chicken shredded); 1 tbs pepper (more to taste once chicken shredded); 1 whole chicken, frozen is ok in a pinch; 1 cup packed cilantro leaves roughly chopped; 1/4 cup feta or Cojita; 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard; 1/2 cup olive oil; Salt and pepper to taste; 1 garlic clove; 2 tbs lime juice; 1/2 tsp cumin; 1/2 tsp honey or agave

Melissa Murray @MelissaMurray

My take on a slow cooked whole chicken in a Dutch oven or slow cooker with a Peruvian flavor. Serve with rice, add beans if you like! Cilantro sauce is optional but really good. Plenty of chicken for a few meals.

Melissa Murray @MelissaMurray

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Ingredients

Prep 30 cook 5hrs

4-6 servings

Slow cooked chicken
3 tbsolive oil (plus more if needed)
3medium onions, halved and thinly sliced
4 clovesgarlic, peeled and smashed
1sweet potato peeled and diced (optional)
Handfulroughly chopped cilantro (more for garnish)
3-4scallions diced (more for garnish)
2limes, 1 halved, 1 into wedges for serving
2 tspcumin
1 tbsdried oregano
1 tbssalt (more to taste once chicken shredded)
1 tbspepper (more to taste once chicken shredded)
1whole chicken, frozen is ok in a pinch
Cilantro sauce
1 cuppacked cilantro leaves roughly chopped
1/4 cupfeta or Cojita
1/2 tspDijon mustard
1/2 cupolive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
1garlic clove
2 tbslime juice
1/2 tspcumin
1/2 tsphoney or agave

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Steps

Prep 30 cook 5hrs

1

Oven to 225 or slow cooker to medium
2

Add everything except chicken into your Dutch oven or slow cooker (whole halved lime included) and toss to coat. (Not cilantro sauce ingredients)
3

Put chicken on top, breast side up. Drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper (defrosted is better but in a pinch I put one in frozen, just needs more time to cook)
4

Put in oven or slow cooker, cook 4-5 hours depending on chicken size
5

To make Cilantro sauce, combine all ingredients in a food processor or good blender. Refrigerate until ready to use. Sauce should be completely creamy and incorporated.
6

Once chicken is really falling apart, remove from heat into a baking dish or something you can work in to shred, let cool slightly.
7

Take two forks and shred chicken. Careful to not include bones or tendons, I don’t usually include skin.
8

Assess what’s left in pot, what would taste good once you mix chicken back in. I’d squeeze out then remove the lime, maybe smash up the garlic more and remove any chicken skin, big herbs etc. if you added potatoes to slow cook, maybe scoop them out and have on the side so they don’t mash up once the chicken goes back in. Then add the shredded chicken to your pot. Return to heat and heat on low 30 minute before you’re ready to serve.
9

Serve with some rice and beans, cilantro sauce and lime wedges. You can also
make hot sandwiches, use in burritos, on nachos, with a salad, use in chicken tortilla soup etc