Hallacas (Venezuelan-Style)

• 1 pack of corn flour
• 5 cups of chicken stock (homemade)
• 1 stick of butter (for frying Annatto/Achiote)
• 2 tablespoons of Annatto/ Achiote
• 14 banana leaves (cut into 30x30 cm square and cleaned)
• 500 gr. of chicken breast
• 2 big yellow onions
• 8 tomatoes (peeled and chopped)
• 1 red sweet pepper (peeled and chopped)
• 1 green sweet pepper (peeled and chopped)
• 1 yellow sweet pepper (peeled and chopped)
• 3 stacks of celery (peeled and chopped)
• 2 leeks (minced)
• 6 cloves of garlic (minced)
• 1 cup green olives
• 1/2 cup of capers
• 1/2 raisins
• 1 cup of parsley (chopped)
• 1 cup of fresh coriander (chopped)
• 1 Stick of butter
• 1/2 cup of vegetable oil
• 14 pitted prunes.

1. Boil the chicken breast with salt and black pepper, shred and set aside. Save the stock for the dough.
2. Heat the butter and the oil, add onions, tomatoes, peppers, celery, leeks, garlic; in that particular order and with and interval of 5 minutes between each. This is the best sofrito ever!
3. Add the shredded chicken to the sofrito, olives, capers, raisnins, parsley and coriander. Cook for 10 minutes and set aside to cool.
4. In a sauce-pot melt the butter and fry the annatto/achiote for 10 minutes, let it cool for 30 minutes. Sift through a colander and keep the now colored butter aside.
5. In a bowl add the corn-flour, chicken stock and anato-butter mix well until you have an homogenous dough. Make 14 equal balls of dough.
6. Place on a board the banana leaves, place a ball of dough and pread it thinly with your fingers.
7. Place two tablespoons of the filling on the dough and garnish with one prune.
8. Fold together the corners of the banana leaves into a square, tighten it with cooking-thread.
9. Put the Hallaca into boiling water and let it cook for at least 45 minutes. Remove from the water and drain. Place vertically in a colander so any residual water is drained. Serve warm.

pack of corn flour, chicken, butter, banana, yellow onions, tomatoes, red sweet pepper, green sweet pepper, yellow sweet pepper, celery, leeks, garlic, green olives, capers, raisins, parsley, coriander, butter, vegetable oil

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Hallacas-_Venezuelan-Style_-1867300 (may not work)