Chicken Sofrito

In this easy, comforting sofrito recipe, Portuguese sausage, chicken, and root vegetables are baked until tender in a seasoned beer broth.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 2 hr
• Total Time: 2 hr 30 mins
• Calories: 515 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle beer
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 onion, cut into chunks
• ¼ cup red cooking wine
• ½ cup chopped fresh parsley, or to taste
• 4 large potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks, or more to taste
• 4 large skinless, boneless chicken breasts, or more to taste
• 1 (16 ounce) package chourico sausage, cubed
• 4 large carrots, peeled and cut into chunks, or more to taste
• 5 tablespoons sofrito
• 3 (.18 ounce) packets sazon seasoning (such as Goya®)
• 4 cloves garlic, minced, or to taste

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).

Step 2

Place potatoes, chicken, chourico, beer, carrots, onion, parsley, sofrito, cooking wine, sazon seasoning, garlic, salt, and black pepper in a large Dutch oven; mix well to combine. Cover with aluminum foil.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the chicken reads at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C) and vegetables are tender, about 2 1/2 hours.