Guatemala: Pollo en Jocon

CLICK HERE FOR THE RECIPE I USED

There are some countries (like France or Greece) where I expect to find many many things I would like to make/eat. I did not expect Guatemala to fall into that category but it actually took me a little while to decide on what I wanted to make and I have bookmarked a few recipes to try in the future.

The recipe is chicken in a tomatillo sauce and I chose it because I'd never cooked with tomatillos before and wanted to give them a shot. I'd eaten things made from tomatillos in the past, I'd just never actually prepared them myself. They weren't difficult to work with but I did not know they were sticky under the husk and ended up googling whether or not they were supposed to be sticky because I was a bit worried!

Anyway, this was tasty but mine did not turn out as green as the photos in the recipe. I think that might be due to the very large red bell pepper I used. I ended up with a sauce that leaned more toward orange than green but it was delicious and the red pepper didn't overpower the other ingredients so it worked out.

I ate it over rice but it would go really well with tortillas too. It was good and I'll eat the leftovers without complaint but, in the future, I might make the pork version instead of the chicken one. I think the sauce would be even better with pork.