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1 h 30 min total45 min hands-onServes 4Easy
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LEGEND → —Yucatan lime, which is bitter rather than sour, and the peel goes in for exactly four minutes.
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The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».
A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.
Lima agria000 g
Chicken thighs000 g
Onion000 g
Garlic000 g
Sweet pepper000 gMost of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.
Lima agria, and building it from what you can buy
Four minutes with the peel, timed
Cutting and frying tortilla strips
Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 13 of the 16 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 4 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.
Hardest step: pulling the peel before it turns bitter — step 10 of 16.
Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.
Free preview3 things Fernanda Balam watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.
Peel in off the heat, never simmering
Strips fried and salted while hot
Juice added at the bowl, not the pot
The peel infusion time before the oil turns bitter, and how to build the bitterness when lima agria is unavailable.
Written by Fernanda Balam. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.
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1103 people cooked it, 85% got it right, and that is the entire reason it costs $14.99 rather than nothing. It has reached the top of the ladder.
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