Braised Chicken In Pomegranate And Walnut Sauce
Braised Chicken In Pomegranate And Walnut Sauce

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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 begin 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:
  1. Prepare chicken thighs with bones
  2. Take yellow onion grind to paste
  3. Prepare tomato grind to paste
  4. Make ready olive oil
  5. Get butter
  6. Get pomegranate molasses
  7. Get walnuts(toasted)1)2
  8. Take sugar
  9. Take cinnamon powder
  10. Take nutmeg powder
  11. Make ready nutmeg powder
  12. Prepare all spices powder
  13. Get black pepper powder
  14. Take cold water
  15. Get salt
  16. Prepare Chichicken marinade
  17. Get paprika powder
  18. Take salt

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. Add the ground walnuts, pomegranate molasses, brown sugar, saffron, cumin and the chicken broth and bring to a boil. This recipe reached the kitchens of Baghdad from the cities of Najaf and Karbala.

Steps to make Braised Chicken In Pomegranate And Walnut Sauce:
  1. Grind walnuts until extremely fine with a paste like consistency.
  2. 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.
  3. Marinate chicken in salt and paprika powder for 30 minutes.
  4. Heat butter and olive oil in a nonstick skillet on medium heat.Add chicken pieces and brown on all sides.Remove and keep aside.
  5. To the same skillet add onion paste;saute until brown and all the water has dried up Remove and keep aside.
  6. 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.
  7. Taste seasoning and adjust accordingly
  8. Cook uncovered on high heat for 10 minutes so the sauce thickens around the chicken pieces.Turn heat off.
  9. Garnish with pomegranate seeds and serve hot with steamed rice.

How to Make Chicken in Pomegranate & Walnut Sauce. Put chicken in a deep pot and cover with water. 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. Pomegranate syrup, sometimes called pomegranate molasses, is available in most Middle Eastern and health food stores.

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