Pollo (Spanish and Italian for

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Food

Dishes

Arroz con pollo ''Arroz con pollo'' (Spanish for ''rice with chicken'') is a traditional dish of Latin America, closely related to paella. It typically consists of chicken cooked with rice, onions, saffron, and a potential plethora of other grains or vegetables ...

, Spanish and Latin American traditional dish *

Pollo adobo or (Spanish: marinade, sauce, or seasoning) is the immersion of cooked food in a stock (or sauce) composed variously of paprika, oregano, salt, garlic, and vinegar to preserve and enhance its flavor. The Portuguese variant is known as . ...

, Spanish dish * Parmigiana di pollo, Italian dish *

Pollo al disco Pollo al disco (literally, "chicken á la disk") is a hearty Argentine dish consisting of chicken and various vegetables cooked as a stew in an uncovered deep pan over an open fire. "Disco" refers to the pan used to cook the dish, which is usua ...

, Argentine dish * Pollo a la Brasa, Peruvian dish * Pollo alla cacciatore, Italian dish * Pollo motuleño, Mexican dish *

Caldo de pollo (, lit. 'chicken broth') is a common Latin American soup that consists of chicken and vegetables. What makes this soup different from many other versions of chicken soup is that alike the Brazilian , uses whole chicken pieces instead of chopp ...

, Latin American dish *

Tinga de pollo Chicken Tinga ( es, tinga de pollo) is a Mexican dish made with shredded chicken in a sauce made from tomatoes, chipotle chilis in adobo, and sliced onions. It is often served on a tostada and accompanied by a layer of refried beans. It can b ...

, Mexican dish *

Aguadito de pollo ''Aguadito de pollo'', also referred to as 'Aguadito', is a traditional chicken soup in Peruvian cuisine consisting of chicken, cilantro and vegetables. The dish is prepared using large chunks of chicken and additional ingredients like chicken heart ...

, Peruvian dish *

Pollo al mattone Chicken under a brick, also known as brick chicken, is a roast chicken dish. In most preparations, a whole chicken is seasoned with lemon and herbs and roasted in an oven or grill with a brick placed on top to flatten the chicken and enhance b ...

, Italian dish * Pollo Asado, Spanish for "roasted chicken" dish

Restaurants

El Pollo Loco El Pollo Loco (Spanish for "The Crazy Chicken") is the name of two independent restaurant chains that specialize in Mexican-style grilled chicken. Both were founded by Juan Francisco Ochoa. He established the first El Pollo Loco restaurant in G ...

, Mexican-based fast food restaurant chain *

Pollo Tropical Pollo Tropical (Spanish language, Spanish for "Tropical Chicken") is a South Florida-based restaurant chain and Franchising, franchise specializing in food inspired by Latin-American, Latin-Caribbean cuisine. Founded in 1988, the chain has its h ...

, American-based Caribbean restaurant chain *

Pollo Campero Pollo Campero is a fast-food restaurant chain, located in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Spain, Bahrain, Belize, Haiti, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Africa, Brazil, Canada, and Italy. The chain has ...

, Guatemalan-based fast food chain *

Los Pollos Hermanos Los Pollos Hermanos (; Spanish for The Chicken Brothers) is a fictional fast food restaurant chain specializing in chicken that was featured in the television series ''Breaking Bad'' and its spin-off ''Better Call Saul''. In the fictional u ...

, fast food restaurant originally from ''Breaking Bad'' universe *

Juan Pollo Juan Pollo is a Mexican cuisine, Mexican-style rotisserie chicken restaurant chain headquartered in San Bernardino, California founded in 1984 by Albert Okura. Its restaurants are located mostly in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, ...

, American-based Mexican restaurant chain *

Pollo Brujo Pollo Brujo is a fast food chain of chicken restaurants, which operates with 10 locations in Guatemala, as well as in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Incident On October 28, 2019, a Pollo Brujo security worker was found dead inside the compan ...

, Guatemalan-based fast food chain * Pollo Palenque, American-based Mexican restaurant chain

Other

Pollotarian Pollotarianism is the practice of adhering to a diet that incorporates poultry as the only source of meat in an otherwise vegetarian diet. While ''pollo'' specifically means chicken in both Spanish and in Italian (with ''pollame'' meaning poult ...

, semi-vegetarian diet allowing the consumption of chicken and eggs

People

* Secondo Pollo (1908-1941), Italian priest *

Stefanaq Pollo Stefanaq Pollo (March 7, 1924 – May 15, 1997) was an Albanian academic, professor and historian during Communist Albania. Biography Pollo was born in Përmet, in a family originating in Frashër region. He was also a novelist and member of the ...

(1924-1977), Albanian academic *

Genc Pollo Genc Pollo (born 7 April 1963 in Tirana) is an Albanian conservative politician. An orthodox Christian and trained historian, Pollo was co-founder and first spokesman of the Albanian Democratic Party. He is a member of the Albanian Parliament sin ...

(born 1963), Albanian politician *

Pollo (footballer) Adrián José Hernández Acosta (born 2 May 1983), known as Pollo, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Born in Mogán, Las Palmas, Pollo played youth football with UD Las Palmas. His professional ...

(born 1983), Spanish footballer *

Pollo Del Mar Pollo Del Mar or Pollo DelMar born as Paul E. Pratt, and alternately known as The Notorious P.D.M. or The Glamazon is a San Francisco-based American drag queen performer, professional wrestling personality, comic, emcee, journalist, activist, phi ...

, American drag queen *

Pollo (band) Pollo (sometimes stylized as POLLO) is a rap group formed in 2010 in São Paulo by the MCs Luiz Tomim (also known as “Tomim”), Adriel de Menezes (also known as "AdR"), and DJ Kalfani. The band found fame with its hit “Vagalumes”, which has ...

, Brazilian rap group

Places

Pollos Pollos is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 780 inhabitants. Pollo is also the Spanish word for chicken. See also *Cuisine o ...

, municipality in Spain *

Los Pollos Los Pollos () is a town in the Coclé province of Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America ...

, town in Panama *

Porto Pollo Porto Pollo (also ''Porto Puddu'' in Sardinian, ''Chicken Harbour'' in English) is an Italian località, in the comune of Palau, on the northern Sardinian shore in the province of Sassari The province of Sassari ( it, provincia di Sassari, sc, ...

, neighborhood in Italy * Punta del Pollo, mountain in Spain