Ajaico… A Colombian Chicken Soup.
Thank you very much for your lovely responses to my first post on my food column..It has been much harder to think of what to write about this week but I have shelved the exotic fruits until your weather warms up somewhat and am bringing to you another soup this time from Columbia.
The recipe was given to me by a good friend when I was in Phuket and it is a lovely Chicken and Potato soup which originated many moons ago in Columbia and it is now a well-known national dish. When the gales are blowing and it is a snowy, blustery winters night when the wind chill goes right down to your toes and even your wee freezes then this is just what you need.
She told me that her grandmother used to keep a pot simmering on her stove ready for when any cold mortal came to her door…It sounds to me a little like she was a welcome port in the snow storm.
I can just picture her granny standing in her kitchen serving up these luscious bowls of hot soup.
Traditionally served with thinly slice avocados, sour cream, chopped coriander and capers…..I am now salivating as I type…
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 lbs of chicken pieces, skin on and on the bone.
- 1 1/2 lbs of potatoes……mixed varieties maybe 3 different ones.
- 2-3 Corn cut crosswise into quarters or 1 1/2 cups of frozen corn.
- 1 large brown Onion chopped roughly.
- 5 cloves of garlic, roughly cut.
- 4 cups of good chicken stock…I cook up chicken carcases.
- 1 tsp of coarse salt…I use Himalayan.
- 1 tsp fresh ground black pepper.
- 2tbsp Olive Oil.
- I bunch of coriander ..tied.
- 1 bunch of spring Onions( green onions) …tied.
- 2tbsp dried guascas.
NB: Also known as Quick weed or Galinsoga in the US and Gallant Soldiers in the UK……It is a very prolific edible weed.
Or…You can use dried Oregano as a substitute.
Let’s Cook!
Marinade your chicken pieces with the onion, garlic, salt and pepper in the fridge for 8-24 hrs.
When ready to cook heat olive Oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pan . Add the chicken and all the marinade bits. Brown the chicken on both sides about 6 minutes.
Pour the stock into the pan and raise the heat to bring to the boil, turn down and cook at a rolling simmer for 30 minutes. Remove chicken from the pan and when it is cool enough to handle remove skin and bones. Cut or tear the chicken into bite-sized pieces.
Put the potatoes in the cooking liquid and cook for 5 minutes. Then add the corn, tied spring onions, coriander and quascas( oregano). Cover pan and simmer for about 20 minutes or until potatoes are cooked.
Remove coriander and onions and return chicken to the pot and warm through.
Serve soup in individual bowls with the prepared avocado, sour cream, coriander and capers as accompaniments.
Enjoy!
Last week’s comments and especially one from Norah and her unfortunate experiences with Jack Fruit leads me to saying if you are preparing any Jackfruit before I do a post on Jackfruit then to avoid the sticky gooey disaster follow this advice… and enjoy!
Until next week when it will be some recipes to make from the exotic Thai fruit aka The Jackfruit the biggest fruit to grow on a tree and has reached some 80lbs in weight…
Thank you for visiting this column and please let me know if you have anything at all that you want me to discuss or find the recipe for.
I also thought that I may have a question and answer week so if you have any questions then fire away…I look forward to hearing from you xx
You can find my previous column in the directory: https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/carol-taylors-food-column-2018/
About Carol Taylor
Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.
I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetables ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.
Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use have to improve our health and wellbeing.
Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!
Carol is a contributor to the Phuket Island Writers Anthology: https://www.amazon.com/Phuket-Island-Writers-Anthology-Stories-ebook/dp/B00RU5IYNS
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YUM! I love good soups. Thanks!
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Thanks glad you enjoyed.
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Oh yum! I’m definitely going to try this recipe. I’m a big fan of simmering pots of delicious soup.
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Great Robert thank you.
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One of my favorite soups Carol, and I love the spin on this one. Yum! And wow, what kind of a tree could grow a fruit that weighs 80 pounds? I’m curious! 🙂 xxx
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I know and if you see the tree it is crisscrossed with string supporting each fruit…I will dig the picture out…although the stem of the fruit is very sturdy. Yes it is a lovely hearty soup Debby and flavoursome 🙂 I hope hubby is much better xx
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Thanks so much Carol. Slowly every day is a bit better. 🙂 xx Waiting for that photo! 🙂 ❤
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Soup sounds delicious but I’m wondering why the spring onions can’t be sliced and left in? Think I’ll pass on the jackfruit, though.
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Yes, I agree, Mary..personal choice and I do the same sometimes.. in this instance, the herbs are treated as a bouquet garni more I think as it is quite a chunky soup and has a lot going on… Ahhhh well, A spoiler for you…Maybe I can change your mind next week and it can be bought ready prepared as one whole fruit would be much too much for many given the size of them… They can be huge… x
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It certainly sounds delicious. The soup, I mean.
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Great heart warming soup recipe Carol. And I found the video about the jackfruit really interesting. Again it was one of the fruits I saw in Asain grocers in London and I always wondered about buying one… Pretty relieved I didn’t as I think I would not have had a clue what to do with it. I do now though, thanks to you! Px
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You are welcome Paul and there will be recipes next Wednesday so all will be revealed…much of the time here it is sold ready to eat but it looks like I am going to have a bumper crop this year I have many babies on my tree…Looking forward to your next gardening column x
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Looking forward to the recipes Carol!
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Thank you for this great chicken soup recipe, Carol. I have always been keen to try and make a chicken soup but was worried it would be greasy.
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Thanks Robbie.. xx
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If I think soup is going to be greasy I let it cool and skim of the fat but I always trim my carcasses and meat of fat excess fat before cooking as well. I hope you enjoy Robbie x
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This sounds and looks the kind of soup that I need to help ‘cure’ my cold! 🙂
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Oh lord Judy.. get better soon.. xxx
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Thanks Sally. I am on the mend now. I love chicken soup at the best of times but especially when I am ill! 🙂
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Oh poor you Judy..lots of soup and rest x
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Thanks, Carol xxx
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Thank you for sharing Sally, and Loved your Chicken soup recipe.. Something so warming on a cold day and comforting at the same time 🙂 Thank you for sharing
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Thank you, Sue…glad you love it and yes Sally is a star to share and care 🙂
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She is 🙂
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Glowing and twinklingxxxx thank you both..
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❤ xxx ❤
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This is definitely not my grandmother’s chicken soup – love the corn in it, Carol!
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Thanks Dolly hugs xx
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Hugs right back to you, Sally! 😻
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No neither is it mine but a change is as good as a rest as they say …Thank you, Dolly X
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That was meant as a compliment, dear Carol! 😻
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I know dear Dolly and it was taken as such…Have a lovely day..I am still going through your cookbook but annual visa time( and that has to be done) but while I am waiting for round two of fun visa time( not) I will resume my reading..Have a lovely week x
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Take your time, and good luck with your visa rounds! 😻
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Thank you..Dolly x
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I have a confession, Carol and Sally. I like chicken soup even on a hot summer day. And I love the sound of this recipe. How can you go wrong when you start with chicken and potatoes?
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Fantastic Molly… I agree.. I could eat chicken soup everyday.. xx
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We eat a lot of hot food here even though it is hot I believe you should eat what you enjoy and if it is chicken soup when it is blazing hot so be it x Enjoy! Molly x
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I agree, Carol!
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Sounds like a great antidote for winter Carol. xx
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I agree Brigid, especially after the windy night we just had.. xxx
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Thank you, Brigid it certainly is filling and warming..warms the cockles of your heart as my dad used to say x
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My second post on my food column hosted by the one and only Sally on Smorgasbord…..I hope you enjoy and if you do please share…Have a lovely day x
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Thanks for another great post Carol…you are a star.. xx♥
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Thank you, Sally all this praise I am getting ..but so are you for how you help and promote us 🙂 xx
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Thank you Sally for hosting me once again 🙂 xx
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My pleasure entirely Carol.. xxx
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