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Chicken with Orange & Pepitoria Sauce

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The taste of oranges with powdered pepitoria… the sweet orange with the earthy flavor of pepitoria is a very rustic, local street food in Guatemala. It is also something all guatemalans have grown up with.  At home from time to time, we all eat oranges with pepitoria.

Orange with Pepitoria

I wanted to capture the taste in a sauce to serve with browned chicken. I used the whole pepitoria, which are basically pumpkin seeds, and I used my mini chopper to process them into chunky little bits.  There is also a variation of powdered pepitoria, which should also work great with this recipe.  I’ll have to try this again using the powdered pepitoria.  This is a very easy and fresh dish.  I made some sweet potato puree to go with it, and the combination was perfect.

Helga

Picture of the Orange with Pepitoria by José Wolf, found on Flickr.

Chicken with Orange-Pepitoria Sauce

A The Foodies’ Kitchen Original Recipe
Serves: 4

Ingredients:
4 chicken fillets
1 1/4 cup fresh orange juice (divided)
1/2 white onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
2 teaspoon cumin
2 springs of rosemary
¼ cup pepitoria, ground
Salt and pepper to taste

2 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoon butter
1 orange, cut into chunks.
1 lime
Whole pepitoria, to sprinkle on top

Procedure:

  1. Season the chicken with salt and pepper, on both sides.
  2. In a bowl, mix 1 cup of the orange juice, the onion, garlic, rosemary springs, cumin. Let the chicken marinate for at least 30 min in this mixture.
  3. In a hot pan, brown the chicken breast (without the marinade) 4 minutes per side at medium-high temperature. Remove chicken breasts from pan. Add the butter, let it melt. Then add the marinade, and an extra ¼ cup of orange juice, the sugar, orange chunks and adjust salt and pepper. Return chicken to the pan. Add the whole pepitoria and juice from 1 lime.
  4. Cover and let cook for another 10 min.

Serving suggestions. With a green salad, or with sweet potato puree.


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Chicken with Orange-Pepitoria Sauce
Chicken with Orange-Pepitoria Sauce
Chicken with Orange-Pepitoria Sauce

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Comments (3)

  • maria bedoya

    June 10, 2013 at 6:30 pm

    Muy buenas sus recetas, pero si me gustaría recibirlas en español, gracias por atender mi pedido

  • Kitty

    June 11, 2013 at 8:18 am

    Gracias por tu comentario Maria! Estamos en el proceso de traducción de todas nuestras recetas. Esta la traducimos hoy, y si ves alguna otra que quieras traducida, avísanos y con gusto la pasamos a español :)

    ~ Kitty

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