Level: | Advanced |
Total: | 1 day 10 hr 10 min |
Active: | 1 hr 35 min |
Yield: | 8 cups |
Level: | Advanced |
Total: | 1 day 10 hr 10 min |
Active: | 1 hr 35 min |
Yield: | 8 cups |
Ingredients
- 1 pineapple
- 4 ounces fresh ginger
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 ounces cornstarch
- 4 ounces lime juice
- 4 ounces brown sugar
- 1 ounce ground cumin
- 1 ounce paprika
- 1 ounce salt
- 1 yellow onion, sliced
- 1 leaf Cuban oregano or a pinch dried oregano
- 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breast
- 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- Banana leaves, for covering
- One 8.8-ounce package bean thread noodles
- 2 ounces salt, plus more for the cooking water
- 1 full bunch fresh cilantro
- 4 ounces garlic, minced
- 1 cup lime juice
- 2 ounces white vinegar
- Pico de Gallo, recipe follows
- Caribbean Black Beans, recipe follows
- Cilantro Aioli, recipe follows, for serving
- Pickled Red Onions, recipe follows
- Potato sticks, shredded carrots, and barbecue sauce, for serving
- 6 tomatoes, diced
- 1 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 1 cup lime juice
- 2 ounces white vinegar
- 1 ounce garlic, minced
- 1 ounce sea salt
- 1 cup olive oil
- 6 ounces chopped yellow onions
- 4 ounces garlic, minced
- 4 ounces chopped fire roasted red peppers
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 stalk celery, chopped
- 1 cup sherry wine
- One 10-pound can black beans
- 2 ounces ground cumin
- 2 ounces sea salt
- 2 ounces browning and seasoning sauce, such as Kitchen Bouquet
- 2 ounces granulated sugar
- 1 ounce black pepper
- 4 bay leaves
- 2 leaves Cuban oregano or 2 pinches dried oregano
- 2 cups vinegar
- 1 cup sugar
- 6 red onions, sliced
- 1 quart cilantro stems
- 2 ounces garlic
- 2 cups lime juice
- 2 ounces white vinegar
- 1 ounce salt
- 1/2 gallon mayonnaise
Instructions
- For the pineapple ginger sauce: Blend pineapple and ginger and add to a rice cooker. Bring to boil, then add brown sugar. Mix cornstarch in a bowl with 1 cup water, then add cornstarch slurry to the sauce.
- For the pineapple mojo chicken: Preheat a smoker or grill for cooking at 250 degrees F.
- Combine lime juice, brown sugar, cumin, paprika, salt, onion, oregano and 1 cup pineapple ginger sauce in a bowl. Add chicken and mix together. Cover with banana leaves and put in smoker. Cook overnight.
- For the cilantro noodles: Soak noodles in warm water for approximately 10 minutes while you bring salted water to a boil. When water boils, add noodles and cook for 5 minutes. Strain and chill. Blend cilantro, garlic, lime juice, white vinegar and salt together. Mix with the noodles.
- For the pineapple mojo chicken bowl: Arrange noodles in a bowl. Top with chicken, then arrange Pico de Gallo, Beans, Pickled Red Onions, potato sticks, carrots barbecue sauce and Cilantro Aioli around the top.
- Combine the tomatoes, cilantro, onion, lime juice, vinegar, garlic and salt together in a bowl.
- Bring olive oil to heat in a rice cooker. Add onions, garlic, peppers, carrots and celery to oil and cook for approximately 5 minutes. Add sherry wine and reduce by half. Add the beans, cumin, salt, browning sauce, granulated sugar, pepper, bay leaves and oregano and cook for 20 minutes.
- Combine vinegar, sugar and 1 cup water in a rice cooker and bring it to boil. Add the red onions and cook until translucent. Remove from the heat and refrigerate 1 day before using.
- Mix cilantro stems, garlic, lime juice, vinegar and salt in a blender. Whisk together blended items with mayo.