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Ropa Vieja is a mainstay of the Cuban-American diet. It's traditionally made with skirt steak, a stringy cut of meat with the poetic name fajita (girdle) in Spanish. This recipe uses chicken breast and is fantastic; the leftovers are even better.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have ropa vieja (chicken leftovers recipe) using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Ropa vieja (chicken leftovers recipe):
- Take 1 plate of leftovers
- Take 2 onions
- Get 3 cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 tsp. cumin seeds
- Get 1 jar chick peas
- Prepare 1 tbsp tomato puree
- Make ready 1 few sprigs fresh coriander
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Instructions to make Ropa vieja (chicken leftovers recipe):
- Cut the leftovers into small pieces
- Chop the onions. Heat the olive oil and add the cumin seeds. Fry over a gentle heat for a minute and add the onions and the cloves of garlic (whole and unpeeled). Drain the chickpeas and keep some of the brine. When the onion is nice and soft add the chickpeas to the pan, turn up the heat and stir well for five minutes.
- Add your leftovers
- Add the tomato puree to the brine to make it more liquidy and add the sugar. Stir. Add to the pan and stir well. Cook over a moderate to high heat for another 10 minutes. As it browns and starts to stick to the pan, move it around with a spatula so that it gets evenly cooked. Try for seasoning - you might want to add pepper but shouldn't need salt because of having used the brine.
- Serve with chopped fresh coriander (or parsley). Enjoy!!
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