Recipe name:
Chicken With Fruit And Almonds
Recipe category:
Main Dish
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Recipe detials: Chicken with Fruit and Almonds
2 c Milk 1 c Coconut; grated 3 md Onions; sliced 2 Garlic cloves; crushed 2 tb Lemon rind; grated 3 tb Lemon juice 2 tb Damson plum jam or preserves 1 tb Ground coriander 1 ts Each sugar and salt 1 ts Anise seeds; crushed 1 ts Ground ginger 1/2 ts Ground saffron 1/4 ts Chili powder 1 tb Vegetable oil 3 tb Butter 12 Chicken breast halves* 1 c Blanched whole almonds Hot cooked rice *Breasts should be 4 oz. each and be skinned, boned and cut in 1" pieces. Combine milk and coconut in a saucepan. Bring just to a boil over medium heat; remove from heat and let stand 30 minutes. Drain well, reserving milk. Press coconut between paper towels to remove excess moisture; set aside. Combine onion and next 11 ingredient; stir well. Set aside. Combine oil and butter in a large skillet; cook over medium heat until butter melts. Add reserved coconut; cook until lightly browned, stirring constantly. Remove coconut with a slotted spoon; set aside. Add chicken to oil in skillet; cook until lightly browned, stirring occasionally. Add reserved onion mixture; stir gently. Stir in reserved milk, coconut and almonds. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes or until chicken is tender. Serve over hot cooked rice. Recipe from Jane Mold in _Elizabeth H. Brown Humane Society Cookbook_ by The Elizabeth H. Brown Humane Society, Inc./Orleans, VT. In _America's Best Recipes: A 1989 Hometown Collection_. Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, Inc., 1989. Pg. 252. ISBN 0-8487-0765-6. Electronic format by Cathy Harned. |