El me miró cargando la olla hacia la cocina y agarrando una cuchara me dijo “Que es esto?” “Gallina Pinta”, le contesté, mientras el agarró una cuchara y después de probarla dijo “Es de pollo?” Y le expliqué que tiene los colores de las plumas de una gallina, pero se prepara con carne de res. Es muy divertido en las fiestas, mas después de algunas tragos. Nunca me ha gustado que mis hijos pidan comida en casa de otros, entonces cociné Gallina Pinta para ellos y llevé el resto a la fiesta. “Para la boda de mis sobrinos, muchos familiares vinieron be Baja California y les preparamos Carne Asada. El vapor de la olla olía a ajo y empañó las frías ventanas de la cocina. “Es muy local, personas de otros lugares en México no conocen este platillo” dijo. Florencia picó la carne en trozos grandes, después la vació en una olla con los frijoles pintos y los puso a hervir. Por Richard Scott, traducción por María Conchita Peralta Provecho! Nada es más Sonorense que Carne Asada, excepto Gallina Pinta Serve (reheat if needed) in bowls with ground chiltepín pepper on the side, and fresh corn tortillas. Remove from heat and let sit for 1/2 hour minimumĥ. When the hominy softens, add onion, green chile and cilantro.Ĥ. Cook till beans are tender, add hominy.ģ. Bring to a boil then lower to a simmer.Ģ. Add whole cloves of garlic, salt, and stewing beef cut in large pieces. Like Chile in the U.S., specific quantities of ingredients vary a lot.ġ. It could quite likely be the origin, the source for all the others. Gallina Pinta is a stew that uses ingredients found in Posole, Chile, Menudo, and New Mexico Green Chile. “Needs a little time” says Florencia “it will be ready when you come back from the store with some corn tortillas.” Gallina Pinta With every ingredient now in the pot, the kitchen smells truly great. So…” she says, reaching for the cilantro, “while the Carne Asada sits on the table, everyone stands in the kitchen eating Gallina Pinta from plastic cups.” While I am lighting the stove, he is filling plastic cups and passing them out to all the Baja guys. She starts chopping an onion, then some green chiles. Steam rises to the ceiling as Florencia adds the hominy. “I then explained that Gallina Pinta, Painted Chicken, looks like the feathers on a colorful bird. ‘What’s this?’ he says, ‘Gallina Pinta’ I say, ‘but HEY, let me heat it up.’ ‘It’s great’ he says. Beto sees me carrying the pot to the kitchen, and grabs a spoon.

My Tio Beto from Ensenada was there he is always fun at parties…more fun after some drinks.

I never liked my kids asking for food at someone’s house, so I made Gallina Pinta for them, and brought the rest of it to the fiesta.

I don’t know this is true, but I do know it is delicious and that is all what matters to me now.“For my cousins’s wedding, a lot of the family came from Baja, and of course we had a Carne Asada (a big barbeque). The name Gallina pinta, according to my friend’s mum, comes from the fact there are two different ingredients with a different colour in the broth. Just writing about it, makes my mouth watering. Then when it is served, it is garnish with fresh coriander, onion and these very fiery piquin chillies. I’m a big pozole fan, another Mexican dish made with hominy, but when I discovered Gallina pinta, I just felt in love with it, as it has the best of both worlds, beans and hominy and a delicious broth with beef.

The dish is the perfect for a cold January day, because it is served hot and it just has the word comfort all over. This delicious caldo, broth, is made with beef, usually ox tail, pinto beans and hominy corn. Gallina Pinta, which translates in English as painted hen, is a dish from the north of Mexico, originally from Sonora, but it is also cook in Baja California, the place I am from.

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