Peruvian Chicken and Crafts

Steve looked up a recipe for Peruvian chicken before Christmas, and we finally made it last night. It turned out pretty good, and wasn't horrible to make, because the veggies only need to be chopped into large pieces (sometimes it feels like all I do is chop vegetables!)

Peruvian Chicken

Spice Rub:
1 tea. olive oil
1 1/2 T paprika
1 T cumin
2 tea fresh lemon juice
1 tea sea salt
1/2 tea pepper
1/2 tea oregano
2 cloves garlic
2 T white vinegar (I used white balsamic)

4 pounds chicken, cut into parts (I used a pack of boneless, skinless chicken breasts)
1 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes, diced (I used two medium sized ones)
2 onions, quartered (I only had one, and it was a sweet onion)
1 yellow pepper, diced
1 clove garlic
3 tea olive oil
1/2 tea salt
1/2 tea pepper


Preheat the oven to 425. Make the rub and put it on the chicken. Slice the onions, pepper, and sweet potatoes into bite-size pieces. Place them in a 9 X 12 baking dish and sprinkle with the olive oil, salt and pepper. Arrange the chicken on top of the veggies. 

Bake 20 minutes, stir the veggies, and bake another 25 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through. 

It's got a good blend of spices in it, but it's not spicy. It would also go well with rice or cauliflower rice. 

And just as a bonus, we were talking about being "fishers of men" in Sunday school, so we made these bracelets out of fishing swivels:

You can find similar bracelets online for $40, but they're super easy to do yourself, and it would be pretty easy to add a clasp or a charm. (The swivels open like a safety pin.) You can a pack (they come in different sizes and colors) for around $1.50. The kids were more interested in making fishing poles out of pretzel rods and Twizzlers, with a gummi worm, but I thought the bracelets were cool!