What is the difference between polo and gallina

Although I always buy free range, there is always some fat and I remove as much as possible before I cook it. I also always skim fat from the top of the braise once it is cooked.

As you can see by the way I dissect the chicken into pieces, I am no butcher, but if it is peasant style after all so I get away with it being roughly cut.

I usually cut rough the vegetables as well. And who needs exact measurements if the recipe is home style. Cut the chicken into pieces and remove the fat unless you like fatty chicken. Brown the chicken in a tiny amount of oil — one side and the other. Remove from the pan. I like to drain off any fat before I continue cooking the rest.

Use the same pan, add the olive oil. Add the chicken, herbs, tomatoes, seasoning and pour in the wine. Do not use much salt as the olives are likely to be salty. I'm not completely sure about this, but the female gallina not a layer provides most of the meat in our grocery stores. A layer ponedora is also eaten after stopping laying--that meat is known to be tough and flavorful.

A pollo is a male, preferred by most for traditional cooking because of its fuller flavor. On the other hand, if you're at the supermarket here in Colombia and want the the meat from a gallina produced for meat, you ask for carne de pollo. It's the type of bird, classification by the age of bird. Gallina is an older bird, yes, used mostly for stock and broth preparation, not for cooking its meat, not even in a stew.

Pollo is a younger bird. In some Latin American countries the difference between pollo and gallina meat is much more marked, as is the case in Peru with aji de gallina and pollo chifa. Pollo meaning a younger, whiter meat, and gallina a yellower, fattier, and older meat.

With regards to pollo vs polla The real difference comes with hen One last thing Gallina vieja hace buen caldo or Old hen makes for good stew My understanding is that el gallo is the word for a live rooster and el pollo is the word for the meat of a chicken. Learn Spanish. Sign in. I also found "gallina". Even though Spanish uses gallina in idiomatic expressions and sayings in which English uses the word chicken, that does not mean that the word gallina means chicken.

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