Dominican Pan Seared Chicken (Pollo Guisado)
Now this Pan Seared Chicken or Pollo a la Plancha, like we call it in Dominican Republic, is amazing!!! This is one of the first dishes I remember eating as a child. My mom always got a whole chicken, cut it up and made it this way. I loved the drumstick and still do. But find myself cooking more chicken breasts these days because of my picky family 🙂 This chicken can be served with rice and beans if you want to go full on Dominican or you can prepare breasts, chop them and add them to a salad like my friend Natalie recently did. You can even put them in tortillas and top them with whatever you want to give it a Mexican-Dominican flare. Well, the possibilities are endless, so go for it!
Ingredients:
3 chicken breasts sliced in half to make them thinner
1tbs Adobo Goya
Juice of 1 lime
1/3 cup soy sauce
1 small yellow onion, chopped or cut into strips
1 teaspoon of minced garlic
4 tablespoons corn oil
1/2 green bell pepper, sliced
1/2 yellow pepper, sliced
1/2 red pepper, sliced
1/4 cup of Goya salad olives
1/4 teaspoon ground Dominican oregano
Fresh cilantro to taste for garnish
Instructions:
In a bowl mix the chicken, adobo, oregano, soy sauce, lime and garlic. Marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
In a skillet, heat the oil over medium heat.
Add the chicken (reserve the marinade left) and sauté until the meat is lightly browned. If needed, add a bit of water to the left over marinade and add to the chicken if its drying out and not fully cooked.
Once chicken is almost done, about 7 to 10 minutes en each side, add onions, peppers and olives.
Cover and simmer over medium heat for another 10 minutes, Simmer and turn chicken over until the vegetables are cooked through.
When done add fresh cilantro and serve!
Serve with white rice and beans. Or chicken breasts in a salad, or on tortillas with your favorite fixings.
Dominican Pan Seared Chicken (Pollo a la Plancha)
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts sliced in half lengthwise to make them thinner
- 1 tbs Adobo Goya
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1 small yellow onion chopped or cut into strips
- 1 tsp garlic minced
- 4 tbs corn oil
- 1/2 green pepper sliced
- 1/2 yellow pepper sliced
- 1/2 red pepper sliced
- 1/4 cup Goya salad olives
- 1/4 tsp ground Dominican oregano
- Fresh cilantro to taste for garnish
Instructions
- In a bowl mix the chicken, adobo, oregano, soy sauce, lime and garlic. Marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- In a skillet, heat the oil over medium heat.
- Add the chicken (reserve the marinade left) and sauté until the meat is lightly browned. If needed, add a bit of water to the leftover marinade and add to the chicken if its drying out and not fully cooked.
- Once chicken is almost done, about 7 to 10 minutes en each side, add onions, peppers and olives.
- Cover and simmer over medium heat for another 10 minutes, Simmer and turn chicken over until the vegetables are cooked through.
- When done add fresh cilantro and serve!
- Serve with white rice and beans. Or chicken breasts in a salad, or on tortillas with your favorite fixings.
This is second recipe that I’ve seen and made from your site! It was easy and a thumbs up in my house, thanks so much!! The first one by the way I’ve done is the pollo en salsa de tomato. I’ve made that one 3x because it’s also a thumbs up with my husband and boys. Browsing for another recipe soon!
Yay! I am so excited to hear this! Make sure you also try the other pollo guisado, the one with dark meat. It’s a bit of a different method with the sugar for caramelization but I have a feeling it will be an even bigger hit. My one son loves grabbing the drumsticks like lollipops and can eat 4 easily and then wings! Love it! Let me know if you do make it. 😉
Yes, I saw the other one and like you mentioned in your intro for some recipes, we’re more of white meat and breast folks here. Which is why I aimed for recipes that I can do with breasts. I’m aiming for the black bean cilantro rice this week as I found the ingredients and possibly the Dominican spaghetti as well. I’ll keep u posted in the reviews how I do with those!
Great! Definitely give them a try! Let me know how they turn out for you!