Chicken with Dates and Honey
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground saffron
2 teaspoons ground cumin
8 chicken thigh cutlets
30g butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 cinnamon stick
1 1/2 cups water
6 seedless fresh dates
2 teaspoons honey
1/4 cup blanched almonds
1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground saffron
2 teaspoons ground cumin
8 chicken thigh cutlets
30g butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 cinnamon stick
1 1/2 cups water
6 seedless fresh dates
2 teaspoons honey
1/4 cup blanched almonds
- Rub combined salt, pepper, saffron and cumin onto chicken, cover, refrigerate 2 hours or overnight.
- Heat butter and oil in pan. Add chicken and cook until browned; remove from pan. Add onion and cinnamon to pan, cook, stirring, until onion is soft.
- Return chicken to pan, add water, simmer, covered for about 30 minutes or until chicken is tender.
- Just before serving add the dates and honey and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until slightly thickened.
Now....what I really do:
- I use regular ground cinnamon ~ sticks are expensive, and dried dates, that I have chopped and then put into boiling water to plump them up a bit.
- I use as much chicken as I need for our family in whatever cut is cheapest or marked down when I shop. It'll mean you might need to adjust the cooking time, that's all. Meat on the bone will be tastier and more moist.
- I usually put this together right before cooking. I'm sure it would taste better if I let it sit for 2 hours in the spices....but I don't. No one notices!
- I also don't ever have saffron in the house, so I use a bit of tumeric for the colour.
- I wouldn't put almonds in it, as I have a daughter who can't eat nuts.
- You could also put this in the CP, if you have one, for step 3 onwards.
3 comments:
Thanks Tracy. I follow the same principal as you, recipes are a guideline and inspiration. I would rarely buy a special ingredient for a recipe as I would probably not get much use from it. I will be using dry dates and ground cinnamon too. It sounds good. I will let you know how it turns out (in my crockpot).
It was delicious. I cooked it in a casserole dish slowly and everyone loved it (except the fussy six year old).
Yeah, you get that with fussy 6yo's. My 8yo poured tomato sauce all over his *sigh*, but at least he ate it!
I'm glad you enjoyed it Tracy.
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