Ingredients to make Juane with rice and chicken:
- For 6 people:
- 6 pieces of chicken leg (it can be another type of prey)
- 6 units olive
- lard at a ratio of 1 per 1/2 kg of rice
- garlic
- bay leaves
- Pepper
- cumin
- oregano
- achiote
- Salt
- 6 beaten eggs
- 6 hard-boiled eggs
- 1 medium heads of onion
- Bijau, achira or banana leaves.
How to make Juane with rice and chicken
- A very light stock is prepared with the chicken legs, verifying that they are afraid to cook, they are reserved.
- Cook the rice with the water from the bottom and a spoonful of butter, check the salt and reserve.
- A sauce is prepared separately with butter, onion, achiote, oregano and the bay leaves are added, in which the chicken pieces are browned.
- This sauce (the dams are removed) is mixed with the rice and the beaten eggs, checking the salt.
- The leaves (bijau, achira or banana) are passed at a certain height of the fire so that they do not dry out.
- Then, the leaves are distributed on a table and a portion of rice, a chicken leg, an olive and a hard-boiled egg are placed on each one.
- It is shaped into a ball and wrapped with the leaf, tying it carefully.
- Then the Juanes are put in a large pot and cook with a little water for approximately 40 minutes.
- One unit is taken out and served for each dish and Happy San Juan Day.
