Ingredients for Cuban Chicken

Series Summary

Cuban food offers a unique combination of Spanish, African and island cuisine, creating a delicious and spicy blend of seasonings and cooking techniques. Despite common misconceptions, Cuban cuisine is very different from Mexican food, or any other Latin American food, and uses almost no hot peppers. Spices are important in Cuban food however, with garlic, cumin, onion, Cuban oregano and bay leaves being commonly use to flavor the food. In fact, most meats are served with a light sauce made of oil, garlic, onion, and oregano called mojo.

In this free video series, our expert in Cuban cuisine will show you how to make Cuban chicken with mojo sauce. This unique look at cooking chicken allows for use of a whole chicken and offers a blend of flavors from the seasonings in the mojo sauce. Learn each easy to follow step for Cuban chicken, including how to make the mojo, add the seasonings and sauce to the chicken, and bake the chicken. Get tips for making a homemade gravy from the chicken juices and adding them to your whole baked chicken. If you are interested in trying the flavors of Cuba, let our expert show you how to make this delicious and savory baked Cuban chicken with mojo sauce.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Lizbeth Muller and today I'm going to teach you how to make bake chicken with mojo. This is the ingredients for bake chicken with mojo. We need a nice whole chicken like this size, it is any kind of chicken it does not really matter. You can have garlic available you need about a couple of cloves, onion, mojo, fresh pepper, fresh Spanish ground pepper, complete season, oregano, salt, and sour orange naranaja amarga. Those are the ingredients for chicken and mojo."