Chicken in Pomegranate Walnut Sauce, Persian Recipes
One of my favorite cookbooks in my collection
is Persian
Cooking: A Table of Exotic Delights, by Nesta Ramazani.
I know that anything I choose to cook out of this book is going to be
delicious. I hadn't had Fesenjan in quite a few years when I made this
recipe, and found it a bit daunting the first time to get the sweet-sour
ratio to my liking, but once I did, it was wonderful. As you can see from
the picture the sauce was, as Nesta Ramazani describes it, "rich,
dark, sweet-sour and thick". I
served this with couscous, but this is a perfect time to make a wonderful
Persian rice dish - make sure you use basmati rice!
Khoresht e Fesenjan
2 large onions, chopped or
sliced
5 Tbsp butter
1 large fryer chicken or 5 whole chicken breasts
1 can beef bouillon or consommé
1 cup water
2 1/2 cups finely ground walnuts
4-5 Tbsp pomegranate syrup (substitute sour cranberry juice)
2-3 Tbsp sugar
2-3 tsp salt
1/2 tsp saffron (or turmeric)
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp pepper
2 Tbsp lemon juice
Sauté the onions in two tablespoons of the butter until golden brown. Remove from the pan. Add the remaining three tablespoons of butter and sauté the chicken pieces until light brown. Add the bouillon and sautéed onions. Cover and simmer gently for 30 minutes. Remove the chicken from the cooking liquid. Discard the liquid. Cool and bone the chicken..
In a separate pan prepare the sauce by stirring the water into the ground walnuts. Stir in the pomegranate syrup and sugar, and simmer gently over a low heat for 10-15 minutes.
Combine the cooked, boned chicken
and most of its drippings with the walnut sauce; add the seasonings and
the lemon juice; cover and simmer gently for another hour. Adjust the
seasonings by adding a little sugar if too sour, or more pomegranate syrup
if too sweet. The chicken pieces should be coated with a rich, dark, sweet-sour
sauce; there should be plenty of thick sauce. Serve with rice.
Cook's Tips: As stated in the recipe you can use one large fryer chicken or five chicken breasts. The fryer chicken is a better choice as the dark meat help add richness to the dish. You should simmer this dish until the oil separates from the sauce and swims on top. The flavor of this dish is best after it sits overnight.
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