Tired of the same old Easter Ham every year?
I usually fret quite a bit about what I am going to cook on Easter Sunday, but this year I am not going to worry about that one bit. Instead I am ordering a Family Pack from my favorite Santa Ana restaurant, El Pollo Norteño, and let them do the cooking – and oh boy are they good at that!
How good is their special family recipe chicken? Here’s what the O.C. Register’s Food Frenzy reporter had to say about it in a recent article, “It’s stained lava-red by the marinade, and the skin is revelatory – grilled and speckled with burnt bits, fatty and crispy like un-breaded fried poultry. There’s a subtle wisp of smoke in each bite, and the white meat is quite good .”
Their Family Pack #1 includes two marinated, mesquite-grilled chickens, one quart of our savory, fluffy home style Mexican rice, one quart of either their healthy whole or delectable refried beans, their spicy homemade salsa, roasted jalapenos and sliced onions, warm corn and/or flour tortillas and ONE FREE CHICKEN! All of that food costs only $36.99! It is an amazing bargain.
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