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Summary: How to dissolve the corn starch when making authentic Spicy Sweet Havana Chicken; learn more about traditional Cuban food in this free cooking video.
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Sven Robinson Sven Robinson began his culinary career in 1983. His 25 years of experience working in restaurants in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, Arizona, San F... read more
Now that we've removed the chicken, we're going to take some of the stock which has broken up nicely, and we're going to dissolve it in a small amount of corn starch. We want to make sure to reserve a half a cup, so we're not actually going to use that much. We're going to take a half of teaspoon of corn starch and put it in a small bowl, and then we're going to start off with a tablespoon of stock, poured directly in. When these two mix together, they will act as a thickening agent, so you're going to want to scrape all of the corn starch into the vegetable stock. It doesn't have to turn into a paste. It can be milky like this. Once it is added to the other ingredients, and cooked, it will thin everything out.