Aji de gallina is a delicious Peruvian classic - slightly spicy and bright yellow from the famous aji amarillo peppers, and rich from the unusual cream sauce made with ground walnuts. This dish is traditionally served over rice, with boiled yellow potatoes and black olives. You can buy frozen yellow aji peppers (they often look more orange than yellow) at Latin food markets. You can also find jarred aji amarillo paste, which works well too. If you can't find aji amarillo peppers, then substitute another hot chile pepper and add a yellow bell pepper for color.

Republica Fast Food
Avenida Diagonal 220, Lima, Peru

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Ají de Gallina: delicious Peruvian cuisine in Lima, Peru Travel Video Transcript:

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It is lunchtime again here in Lima and today we are going to be trying a traditional dish called Ají de gallina. This is probably like one of those national dishes that you can find at almost any restaurant. But we're eating it at a place called Republica which makes Peruvian dishes but kind of like in a casual fast food setting. So yeah, it should be interesting. We've placed our order and that should be coming soon.

Cat friend. Hi, cat friend. Hi.

Okay, so the food is already here. That came very quickly.

So let's have a look at the plate. This is Ají de gallina and as you can see it is kind of like a chicken stew. It is made with shredded chicken and the sauce has a cream, cheese and peanut base. And also the way they thicken this sauce is by adding bread crumbs that have been soaked in either a broth or milk and this is served with rice or boiled potatoes. And the boiled potatoes and kind of hiding underneath all of the chicken here. Oh, we do have boiled potatoes.

We do. Yeah. I thought we were just given rice.

So this is a very hearty meal. I'm kind of glad we're sharing one plate because there is no way I could eat all of this. Um, but yeah, let's dig right in. I'm just going to try it with rice here. Look at that. This looks so good.

This is one of my favorite ways that chicken is prepared here in Peru. I love this dish. Mmmmhmmm.

And, I don't know if I forgot to mention this but another key ingredient is Aji. The hot pepper. But because it has a cream base it is not super spicy. So I really love this.

Look, they actually gave us aji sauce too.

In case we want it spicier. Maybe we should add a little bit. In case it wasn't enough. Yeah, just dunk it all over that rice. I'm not sure if that is how it is done but that is how we do it.


So it is now Sam's turn to dig in. Yes, my turn. And what is really cool about this dish is like you were saying it is kind of a everyday dish. An everyday part of Peruvian cuisine and this is something we've had a lot at your Aunt and Grandma's house. Oh yes, this is our first time to film it but it is a dish we are very familiar with.

For me it is just the sauce that makes it. I love the cheese and the cream and peanuts. Those are all ingredients I really like. And then when you add tender chicken to that and a little bit of rice. That is just such a winning combo.

And to wash this all down what did you get? I got myself a strawberry smoothie and this is oh natural with no sugar added. So it is not super sweet but it is healthy.

Taste those strawberries?

So we polished that off in like a minute and a half. Yeah, more like demolished it. But what was really cool about this is that it tasted homemade even though this is kind of a fast food type of joint.

The actual Ají de gallina it tasted homemade.

It tasted like what we've been eating at my family's place.

Yeah, yeah. It was amazing. Authentic, delicious, cheap and really tasty.

So now tell us how much did we spend on that delicious Ají de gallina?

You know what, it wasn't expensive. It was only 14 Soles so in total that was four dollars and fifty cents US. Really good value and yeah I'd recommend coming here because the food was authentic, homemade style and we're satisfied. Yeah, so this place is called Republica. Yum.

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