Olga's panamanian chicken and rice

Chicken second courses

Olga was a fellow student of my daughter in a TESOL class she took before leaving to teach English in China. Somewhere near the end of the course they had a potluck and exchanged recipes. Julian later made Olga's chicken and rice recipe for us and it was delicious and mysteriously more than the sum of its parts. It uses mostly storecupboard ingredients and is very easy and quick to make if you have leftover rice. The original just called for "spanish spices"; I developed what follows after a little experimentation.