Recipe: Yummy Chicken Ropa Vieja

Chicken Ropa Vieja. If you have leftover rotisserie chicken, you can use that instead and skip the slow cooker! Cuban cuisine is a favorite of mine and Ropa Vieja, which translates as "old clothes" is a dish I love. Ropa Vieja is a mainstay of the Cuban-American diet.

I had Chicken Ropa Vieja for the first time recently and loved how it was both extremely flavorful and very I served my Chicken Ropa Vieja over rice, but you could also use it to fill a taco or burrito. A savory Cuban recipe of shredded chicken cooked with Spanish seasoning, olive and wine. Very easy to make served over white rice. You can cook Chicken Ropa Vieja using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Ropa Vieja

1. Prepare 4 of chicken breasts.
2. You need 1 of onion sliced.
3. It's 1 of each red/green pepper sliced.
4. You need 1 tsp of cumin.
5. Prepare 4 of garlic cloves diced.
6. Prepare 1 of small can tomato sauce.
7. Prepare 8 of sliced olives.
8. Prepare 1 of bay leaf.
9. You need 1 cup of chicken broth.
10. Prepare 2 T of olive oil to saute veggies.
11. You need 1 T of fresh cilantro.
12. Prepare 2 of sazon with culantro packets.
13. You need to taste of Salt and pepper.

The most important ingredient in Chicken Ropa Vieja is, of course, the chicken. I turned to Foster Farms® Simply Raised Chicken with No Antibiotics Ever from my local Vons. This Chicken Ropa Vieja is so great for so many reasons. It's super flavorful without being fussy in any way.

Chicken Ropa Vieja step by step

1. Cook chicken in pressure cooker, in chicken broth, sazon and bay leaf. Keep stock after cooking.
2. Sauteed peppers and onions in oil until soft. Add garlic, cook 30 seconds. Add tomato sauce, cumin and olives. Add broth from pressure cooker..
3. Shred chicken with forks, add to pan and incorporate to sauce..
4. Serve with white rice (basmati) avocado and tostones (fried seasoned plantains).

It's super versatile, too: serve it on its own, over rice, in a taco, and so on. Ropa Vieja only tastes better the next day as the flavors have more time to meld, so this is a perfect While beef is difficult to get, pork and chicken are staples. They made ropa vieja with shredded pork. Brendan Bryant, our product manager, requested ropa vieja. The classic Cuban dish (it means "old clothes"!) of stewed beef that cooks until it falls apart into long.