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The boiled chicken

The Boiling Hen, is the perfect combination of American Indian culture, Spanish and African cooking in Venezuela. It is a celebration dish to consume during a family gathering or friends, you can say it's a unique dish. In the Venezuelan plains is prepared on a wood fire which adds a special flavor to the finished dish.

The Boiling is a soup with large content of ingredients and seasonings that give a very distinctive flavor, it is customary to prepare in all regions of the country, is a national dish that can be found in any of our cities and towns, has an endless variations depending on the area where you prepare, varies both in its preparation, and in form to accompany or eating is an important part of our cooking and can prepare meat, chicken, chicken or fish can be made "cruzaos" using two or more of these ingredients, but usually one is prepared. The boiled meat or chicken, it is customary to eat in Caracas since long before the eighteenth century, was preparing to eat the soup before the main course, in colonial times appeared almost daily, at first with meat broth or the bird, and this base is added tubers, vegetables and seasonings to be soft, add the "sofrito" and "compound", for flavor and aroma, then served the soup in the dish and vegetables and tubers in a tray, and the prey of the bird or the meat in another, so that the diner to take the portion of vegetables and meats of your choice, this represented the preamble to the main course.

A good has boiled cassava, taro, yams, squash, and celery jojoto can added to it some potatoes, and carrots and a bouillon base is beef or poultry, you should look clear and clean, made ​​palatable with a color for meats, the flavor that adds jojoto and the compound is essential, the deployment of flavor and color of this soup is just wonderful. It is believed that boiling can lift the spirits of the most fallen, relieve pain, comforting a sick ...

In our country, this soup is like many of our typical dishes of our mixed heritage, our colorful example of the transformation of the fruit that gives this land of abundance and wealth that is Venezuela.

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