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This Chicken Stew with Walnut and Pomegranate Sauce recipe is a classic preparation in Persian cooking, going by the name "Fesenjan". Chicken pieces are first browned and then slowly cooked in a sauce with ground toasted walnuts and pomegranate molasses. You might not normally think to.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook braised chicken in pomegranate and walnut sauce using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Braised Chicken In Pomegranate And Walnut Sauce:
- Make ready 500 gram chicken thighs with bones
- Prepare 1 yellow onion grind to paste
- Make ready 1 tomato grind to paste
- Prepare 1.5 tsp olive oil
- Prepare 1 tbsp butter
- Make ready 4 tbsp pomegranate molasses
- Make ready 200 grm walnuts(toasted)1)2
- Get 1/2 tsp sugar
- Get 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp nutmeg powder
- Get 1/4 tsp nutmeg powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp all spices powder
- Get 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
- Make ready 1 litre cold water
- Make ready to taste salt
- Take Chichicken marinade
- Make ready 1 tsp paprika powder
- Make ready 1tsp salt
Return the chicken to the sauce, turn to coat and season with. Add the reduced pomegranate juice mixture, ground toasted walnuts, and chicken. Check to make sure the sauce is thickened and the chicken is cooked through and knife tender. This recipe reached the kitchens of Baghdad from the cities of Najaf and Karbala.
Steps to make Braised Chicken In Pomegranate And Walnut Sauce:
- Grind walnuts until extremely fine with a paste like consistency.
- In a heavy bottomed pan and walnuts and cold water.Bring to boil and cook for 3 to 4 minutes.Turn the heat to simmer.Partially cover with lid and cook for 2 hours;stir occasionally to prevent walnuts from sticking.
- Marinate chicken in salt and paprika powder for 30 minutes.
- Heat butter and olive oil in a nonstick skillet on medium heat.Add chicken pieces and brown on all sides.Remove and keep aside.
- To the same skillet add onion paste;saute until brown and all the water has dried up Remove and keep aside.
- Once the walnut sauce has thickened and reduced in quantity,add chicken pieces,onion paste and the remaining ingredients. Cover and let cook over low heat for 45 minutes until chicken is cooked through.
- Taste seasoning and adjust accordingly
- Cook uncovered on high heat for 10 minutes so the sauce thickens around the chicken pieces.Turn heat off.
- Garnish with pomegranate seeds and serve hot with steamed rice.
Pomegranate syrup, sometimes called pomegranate molasses, is available in most Middle Eastern and health food stores. If it is unavailable, you Sweet-sour adjustments: Add a little more sugar if the sauce is too tart, a little bit of lime or lemon juice if it is too sweet. Combine the walnuts and pomegranate juice in the container of a blender or food processor. Process into liquid. (This can be done in small batches if necessary.) Add walnut-pomegranate mixture to the simmering chicken. Season with cardamom, cinnamon, saffron powder, and salt.
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