People in Buenos Aires, love supremes with great garnish. The Maryland chicken supreme was adopted in most of the restaurants and comes in a big plate, with banana, maize cream and a lot more.
for 4 portions
2 units | RED SWEET CHILI |
8 units | QUAIL EGGS |
25 g. | FLOUR 0000 |
4 units | BANANAS |
1 kg. | POTATOES |
100 cc. | MILK |
25 g. | BUTTER |
2 units | CHICKEN SUPREME |
4 units | EGGS |
300 g. | BREAD CRUMBS |
1 spoonful | CHOPPED GARLIC AND PARSLEY |
n/a | SALT AND PEPPER |
n/a | OIL |
1 unit | MAIZE |
Supremes
Cut supremes in rectangular shape. Whip eggs with garlic and parsley, salt and pepper. Slide supremes by the eggs and then the bread crumbs. Fry in much hot till browning. Save keeping them hot.
*Maize cream *
Boil milk. Melt butter with flour and cook during some minutes, constantly stirring. Add hot milk always stirring. Cook at low heat till it thickens. Put salt and pepper. Shatter the maize end toss it with a little bit of olive oil till it browns. Add to the Bechamel sauce. Save.
*French fries *
Slice peeled potatoes in bars. Wash them in water and then dry well. Fry in much hot oil till they brown.
Fried bananas
Place longwise bananas the most fine as possible. Try to use not very ripe bananas, so they are more consistent. Fry in oil the bananas slices.
Fried eggs
Fry the quail eggs with the help of a metallic ring to maintain the circular shape.
Red sweet chili purée
Wash chili well, place them in a plate with a little bit of olive and cover with an aluminum paper at low heat till they tender. Let them cool down to be able to remove skin and seeds. In a Silpat (non-sticky cloth) place red sweet chili and powder with sugar and salt and dry them at low heat during 30 minutes approximately. Process chili with olive oil.
Presentation
Brush the dish with the red sweet chili purée. Put in the center the chicken supreme, make a quenelle (cylinder o an oval) of maize cream and place it on the supreme together with banana slices and fried quail eggs. On a small saucepan place the French fries.
One possible origin of this meal comes from Maryland, United States, where they are experts in fried chicken, cooked in its same fat. Then, they add a heavy cream, which with the cooking broth form a sauce, very much alike the white sauce. The formula came from the beginning of XX° Century, and seemingly, this famous Maryland chicken was part of the menu of the historic Titanic.
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