Chicken Kelaguen
4.47 from 15 votes
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Asian, meal prep
Keyword: chicken, meal prep, snack
Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour hour
Inactive: 1 hour hour
Total Time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes
Servings: 10
Calories: 157kcal
This is a Chamorro dish and is a staple in the Mariana Islands. It is a combination of chicken, lemon juice, onions, peppers, and hot sauce and is served cold, making it perfect for a quick snack right out of the fridge.
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Ingredients
- 1 (1135 g) broiler chicken 4-5lbs (use 1135g of the pulled meat)
- 3 (120 g) lemons
- 1 medium (200 g) sweet onion
- Salt to taste it will need quite a bit
- 2 Tbsp (30 g) Tabasco
- 2 small (15 g) serrano peppers optional
- 5 (20 g) green onions
- 1 Tbsp (10 g) olive oil
- Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400°F. In a baking dish place the chicken breast side up. Remove the giblets from the cavity and pat the chicken dry with a paper towel. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Cook the bird for 1 hour (plus or minus 10 minutes) on a lower middle rack in the oven. Use a meat thermometer to temp the meat and ensure it is around 165°F.
- Once the chicken has cooked and cooled, tear the meat away from the bones, remove the skin, and dice the chicken into small pieces.
- Finley chop the onion, green onion, and serranos into small pieces and set aside.
- Spread the chicken out in a shallow dish and add the juice of three lemons, diced sweet onion, serranos, salt, green onion, and hot sauce. Mix everything together and taste, adjust the salt and hot sauce levels to suit your liking.
Plating
- This recipe makes 10 servings. Divide it evenly 10 ways. My finished product weighed about 1550g so each serving will be around 150g, which is roughly a fist sized amount if you don't have a scale.
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Nutrition
Calories: 157kcal | Carbohydrates: 2.2g | Protein: 19.2g | Fat: 7.9g
NUTRITION INFO
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Servings
Carbs
33.1g
Protein
287.7g
Fat
118.7g
Calories
2351.5 cals