~731 cal · 74g protein · 68g carbs · 17g fat (estimated, per serving)
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Chicken over fried plantain chips with slaw
🇭🇳 San Pedro Sula
Pollo con tajadas is a Honduran street and home favorite: seasoned chicken piled over tajadas — thin crisp fried green-plantain chips — then heaped with a tangy cabbage slaw (curtido) and drizzled with a special red sauce and mayo-ketchup. It is messy, generous, and unmistakably Honduran.
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Ingredients
Serves 4 —
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2.5 lb chicken pieces
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4 green plantains (for tajadas)
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1/4 head cabbage
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1 carrot
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1/4 cup vinegar (curtido)
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2 tomato
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1 onion
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3 cloves garlic (red sauce)
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1 tsp cumin
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1 tsp oregano
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as needed oil for frying
Instructions
1
Season and fry or grill the chicken (or mushrooms and tofu) until cooked and golden.
2
Slice the green plantains thin and fry into crisp tajadas.
3
Toss the cabbage and carrot with vinegar and salt for curtido.
4
Blend the tomato, onion, and garlic into a light red sauce and warm it.
5
Pile tajadas, chicken, and curtido, then drizzle with the sauces.
San Pedro Sula tradition.
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🌏 While it simmers — know your destination
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San Pedro Sula. The industrial north, home of the folded baleada.
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Honduras. Where the folded tortilla is a whole meal.
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North America. A collision of Indigenous, colonial, and immigrant tables.
The story behind this dish is up top — worth a read while the pot works.
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Richard Moore & Kelsey Tucker
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