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Shown here with Spiced Plantains
Photography: Eric Johnson · Art Direction And Prop Styling:
Marcy Spanogle Hawley and Angela Harbison
Ingredients:
(serves 4)
MOJO MARINADE
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1⁄2 teaspoon kosher salt
2
cloves garlic, peeled, halved
1⁄2 red Serrano chile
1⁄2 cup olive oil
1/3 cup fresh orange juice
1 tablespoon lime juice
Zest of 1 lime
2 large, boneless, skinless chicken
breasts, halved
1 avocado,
peeled, cut into cubes
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice, optional
2
tablespoons unsalted butter
Freshly chopped parsley
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Mojo Chicken
Mojo marinade can be used to marinate meat as well. The sauce is finished
with butter –for a lighter sauce, omit it.
1. In a small, heavy skillet, toast cumin seeds over medium heat, until they
begin to smell fragrant. Remove from heat and place in a small processor or a
mortar and pestle and grind the seeds with the salt, garlic, and Serrano chile.
Scrape the mixture into a bowl.
2. Heat the olive oil over low heat in the
same skillet. When hot, pour over spice mixture. Let stand for 10 minutes. When
cool, whisk in the orange juice, lime juice, and lime zest.
3. Pour half of
the marinade into a dish large enough to hold the chicken breasts in one layer.
Reserve the other half of the sauce and refrigerate. Cover chicken with plastic
and refrigerate for at least 1 hour and up to 3 hours.
4. To prepare avocado
ahead of time, toss it with lemon juice so it doesn't brown.
5. When ready
to serve, heat a stove-top grill pan over medium-high heat. Drain chicken,
discarding the marinade in the dish. Place chicken in hot skillet. At the same
time, in a small saucepan, bring the reserved marinade to a slow boil and reduce
it by about one third.
6. Sauté chicken on both sides until slightly pink
(it will finish cooking when it is removed from the pan). Remove to a cutting
board.
7. Add butter, a tablespoon at a time to the sauce, letting it melt
before adding the additional tablespoon.
8. Place chicken on a serving plate
spoon with sauce. Garnish with parsley.
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