Aguadito de Pollo or Cilantro Chicken Soup

A wonderful soup from Peru with lots and lots of cilantro. SO GOOD. Also you don't totally need chicken, you can just do it with chicken stock. But better with chicken yes. I tried it in a Peruvian restaurant and life was never the same...

 INGREDIENTS:

-3 slices of jalapeño peppers. 
-1/2 onion.

-1 or 2 small cloves of garlic.

-a good bunch of cilantro.

-2 liters of chicken stock.

-4 chicken thighs.

-some oregano.

-some black pepper.

-1 piece of ginger sliced in 3 parts.

-some cumin.

-1 big potato.

-1 cup of rice.

-4 celery sticks.

-1 cup of peas.

-2 sliced carrots.

-1/2 teaspoon of aji molido.

STEPS:

1. Dice up onion and garlic and saute with oil. Now add the 3 slices of jalapeños. 

2. Set apart and add the bunch of cilantro to a long cup in which you can liquify it with the hand mixer with a tiny bit of water. Liquify it, it will look like a green paste. Set apart. 

3. Now prepare the chicken. In the same pot you were doing the onion and garlic now fry your chicken with some oregano. Make it golden and add oregano to it and a tiny bit of salt. Cook till brown.

4. Now add the chicken stock, the cumin, the aji molido, the carrots, the celery cut in slices, the aji molido, the potato cut in cubes and the rice and bring to a boil. When it boils turn heat down. 

5. In the meantime get the chicken out and when it cools off, shred the meat with a fork and knife and put back in pot. Add the frozen peas here too.

 6. Now add the green cilantro paste you created to the soup, automatically it will turn green. 

7. After 5 minutes of all mixing together it should be done! Try the potato and rice to make sure it is all soft.

8. Now garnish with cilantro and you will knock the ball out of the park!!!!!!!!!!

Photo of Gran Canaria which will make you feel like you are in Latin America.