Chicken Kelaguen - in Depth

Name: Chicken Kelaguen - in Depth
Prep time: 24 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 25 h
Yield: 4-6 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 cup soy sauce; 1 cup lemon juice; 1 large onion, finely chopped; 5 hot peppers, finely chopped; 1 whole broiler-fryer chicken, cut up; 1 fresh coconut; lemon juice; 4 green onions, finely chopped; 3 hot peppers, finely chopped; 4 -6 pita bread

Submitted by Lovellama

"This is a spicy (hot) chicken dish from Guam. This version is more work than my other one, but is richer in flavor, in my opinion. Be careful with the hot peppers! Wear gloves if possible, and wash your hands thoroughly after, not touching your face."

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photo by Pikake21

Ready In:: 25hrs
Ingredients:: 10
Serves:: 4-6

ingredients

Finadene Sauce
1 cup soy sauce
1 cup lemon juice
1 large onion, finely chopped
5 hot peppers, finely chopped
Chicken
1 whole broiler-fryer chicken, cut up
1 fresh coconut
lemon juice
4 green onions, finely chopped
3 hot peppers, finely chopped
4 -6 pita bread

directions

Mix soy sauce with lemon juice. Add finely chopped onion and peppers. Let sit a few days in the refrigerator to let the flavors blend.
Marinate the chicken in the Finadene sauce overnight. Grill/broil the chicken, basting with the sauce. After it is done, cool the chicken, debone and shred it.
Open the coconut and discard the liquid inside. Grate the coconut meat. After the coconut is grated, pick it up in your hands and squeeze it over a bowl to collect the milk. Mix the milk with an equal amount of lemon juice and chill.
Mix the green onions, peppers, and coconut meat to the chicken. Slowly mix the coconut milk and lemon juice into the chicken, stirring well.
Serve warm on or in pita bread.

Questions & Replies

Hi! I have so many questions and hope you can help!!! If I am using an already cooked rotisserie chicken- I am not marinating this in anything right? So no need to make the finidene sauce? I am not using a coconut, so I have canned coconut milk and a bag of unsweetened shredded coconut- how much of this do I use and how much of lemon goes into my shredded chicken? Thank you.

Jenny L.

Reviews

Very nice recipe. No need to marinate the chicken overnight prior to putting this together though...either way works fine. A faster way is to buy a cooked/roasted whole chicken from Safeway (or other supermarket, if available). The best way to enjoy is during a fiesta with red rice, lumpia, pancit, chicken adobo, and bonelos aga! Hmmm...

Zandra
Hafa! Kelaguen is the best thing for sure...we love making this, you can buy unsweetened grated coconut at uwajimaya or other asian stores if you're in a hurry ;) this is so good if you use lots of lime :) we also just marinate the chicken in lime salt and pepper and barbeque it until the chicken is just barely done! good job...serve with chammorro tortillas ;)

Sophia Foley
This is better the next day than it is the day it is prepared. The chicken really absorbs all of the flavors if you throw it in the fridge overnight. I crave this dish all the time, and since my friend (who would usually make it for me) has moved away, I wasn't sure that I could reproduce it myself! Grating that coconut was a headache, since we don't have the "easy" traditional graters that we hav back on the island. Also, there was little milk to squeeze out of the meat, so I used another can of coconut milk which turned out perfectly. After running out of lemon juice, I finished off with lime juice..and miraculously it turned out WONDERFUL! Thank you so much Lovellama for posting this recipe on here!

Pikake21
This is my favorite dish!!!

Ibdnaofusa
Awesome recipe! Very authentic. I even add powder lemon powder in the end. Delish!!! Thank u so much for sharing!

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