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Joe Saitta's chicken with tomatillos and masa topping

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Joe Saitta's chicken with tomatillos and masa topping

Poach a 4 lb chicken - cover with water, add an onion, garlic,
peppercorns, all that shit.  Simmer for 20 minutes, turn off, let
cool. 

Remove meat from chicken, throw skin & bones back into pot which
simmer a couple more hours to make chicken stock.

Parboil 1 1/2 lbs tomatillos.  Blend with 2 large bunches cilantro,
one onion, 4 jalapeno peppers to make tomatillo sauce.

Chicken into casserole, cover with sauce.  Mix 2 cups masa, 2 eggs,
2 cups stock to make thick pancake batter.  Cover sauce in casserole
with thin layer cheese, then with masa mixture.  Bake 35 - 40
minutes. 

14may96 did it:

Try to stab through the masa to make some variation in the texture,
not just layers.  Cut the chicken into bite sized chunks.  Maybe
stronger seasoning for the stock or chicken; chicken itself was
pretty bland.  Overall, though was pretty good.