SOUTHERN CHICKEN PERLO 
2 lbs. chicken, stewed (save broth)
1/2 lb. Hillshire Farm polish sausage
1 sm. onion, chopped
2 c. rice, uncooked

Slice sausage in round pieces and cook with the chopped onions till tender. Remove chicken from bone and return it to the broth. Heat to a boil. Add rice to onion-sausage mixture. (When adding rice to boiling broth, make sure that broth level is about 1/2 inch over rice. Drain off excess.) Stir and reduce temperature to medium high. Stir once or twice as broth cooks down. Stir, cover pan and reduce heat to low. Cook 20 minutes, stir and cook 10 minutes longer.

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Southern Chicken Perlo
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 Amber Jett (Minnesota) says:
This dish sounds very simple, and it is but very delicious. To mine I add red pepper flakes and a table spoon or two of soy sauce (to season). The rice will turn out better if you first boil the ingredients on the stove really high, then place the pot in an oven to finish cooking evenly. my family and friends love this!! great comfort food!!
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 Errol (United States) replies:
I agree w/ Jett, I added soy sauce to the rice and I also cooked the rice using 80 percent, stock from the stewed chicken and 20 percent water.

Superb dish tho.
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 Amber D Jett (Iowa) replies:
I also add soy sauce to this dish .. it is super simple and very "delish", I have added shrimp a couple of times and it's wonderful :: Sn: how cool, another Amber Jett. :) ENJOY ALL!
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 Lynda (Georgia) says:
Delicious dish! Would suggest cooking rice in broth first to make sure it gets done, then add onion-sausage mixture. Great with a salad or green vegetable and bread. My husband plans to serve this to his men's group coming up.
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 Logan Hooton (Georgia) says:
I substitute sausage with bacon. It adds that flavor we all love so much.
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 Stephanie Brazil (Georgia) says:
Instead of chicken, I use pork butt. I cook the pork in the crock pot with kosher salt and pepper until it falls apart. Then I use it's broth to make the rice. Yummy!
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 Anne (South Carolina) says:
Make this dish... all the time... One of my families favorites. I cook this dish at least 3 times a month. However this is not purloo... this dish is call "Chicken Bogg". Purloo is a pork and rick dish. I promise! My father, my husband and son are all born in the great state of South Carolina! :-D She is perfect, but she is home.
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 JJ Bodamer (United States) replies:
Ann from South Carolina is correct: 'This dish is call "Chicken Bogg".'

Purloo is a pork and rice dish (although I have eaten a squirrel version). Substitute pulled-pork for chicken, and even skip the sausage-onion additions. Costco sells some great hickory-smoked pulled-pork. Avoid Jim Beam or other sauces!

First, review the great vinegar debate, as recorded in "The Outlander" series of novel.

Then, slow-cook a pork-butt in the crock pot until it falls apart. Put apple-vinegar, Tabasco, red pepper flakes and black pepper in there as well. This broth is used to make the rice.

My receipt is a Williamsburg County, SC adaption.
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 Carla Sadlier (South Carolina) replies:
This is Perlo. Chicken bog is more saucy and wet. I do this same recipe but once the rice is done we add seafood. Shrimp, oysters, other shell fish we have around fresh.
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 Bill H. (Arkansas) says:
I learn this dish from a Geechee man from South Carolina. I brown off my chicken first, sage sausage, then sweat onion, celery, garlic and red pepper flakes, its more like a jambalaya. 4 cups of homemade chicken stock and 2 cups of long grain rice. Many add the rice and sweat it before adding the stock. Great reheat.
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 SaltLifeSC (Delaware) says:
I'm from Horry County, SC (Myrtle Beach) and there are two different versions of this recipe, where I'm from. If it is made with chicken, it's "Chicken Bogg". If it's made with pork, it's Purlo
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 Ruth says:
Made this for the 1st time with chicken wings. I think it was great for a cold day. Happy new year. I love trying recipes.

 

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