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Jocón

Name: Jocón
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Guatemala
Ingredients: 600g Chicken Thigh; 5 Tomatillos; 2 bunches Cilantro; 4 Green Onion; 2 Green Chili Pepper; 2 cloves Garlic; 30g Pumpkin seeds; 2 tbsp White Sesame Seeds; 1 Corn Tortillas; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Chicken stewed in a green sauce of tomatillo, cilantro, and green chili — a traditional Guatemalan dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Jocón is a traditional Guatemalan dish of chicken stewed in a bright green sauce of tomatillos, cilantro, green onion, and green chili. It's distinctively thickened with pumpkin seeds, sesame, and tortillas. Rooted in Maya food culture, it's eaten with rice or tamales.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a highland village in Guatemala, a woman grinds green sauce on a grinding stone and simmers it with chicken in a clay pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chicken Thigh 600g
Tomatillos 5
Cilantro 2 bunches
Green Onion 4
Green Chili Pepper 2
Garlic 2 cloves
Pumpkin seeds 30g
White Sesame Seeds 2 tbsp
Corn Tortillas 1
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Simmer the chicken in 800ml salted water for 30 minutes.
Dry-toast the pumpkin seeds and sesame.
Blend the tomatillos, cilantro, green onion, green chili, garlic, seeds and sesame, torn tortillas, and a little broth.
Put the sauce, chicken, and 300ml broth in a pot and simmer 20 minutes.
Season with salt.
Serve with rice.

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