Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, braised chicken in pomegranate and walnut sauce. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have braised chicken in pomegranate and walnut sauce using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Braised chicken in pomegranate and walnut sauce:
- Get 500 gm chicken thigh (with bones )
- Take 1 yellow onion grind to paste
- Make ready 1 tomato grind to paste
- Make ready 1.5 tsp olive oil
- Prepare 1 tbsp butter
- Take 4 tbsp pomegranate molasses
- Take 200 grm walnuts( toasted)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp sugar
- Take 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp nutmeg powder
- Get 1/4 tsp all spices powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
- Make ready 1 liter cold water
- Take to taste salt
- Prepare chicken marinade
- Get 1 tsp paprika powder
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
Add the reduced pomegranate juice mixture, ground toasted walnuts, and chicken. 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 panadd walnuts and cold water. Bring to boil and cook for 3-4 minutes.turn heat to simmer.Partially cover with lid and let 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 cover 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. Add the ground walnuts, pomegranate molasses, brown sugar, saffron, cumin and the chicken broth and bring to a boil. Return the chicken to the sauce, turn to coat and season with. Add walnut-pomegranate mixture to the simmering chicken.
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