Name: Chicken with saffron, raisins & pine nuts
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 1 ¼kg chicken jointed and on the bone (ask your butcher to do this for you or see Know-how); 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 onions chopped; 3 garlic cloves chopped; good pinch of saffron (about 20 strands); 125ml glass dry sherry (such as Fino or Manzanilla); 200ml chicken stock; 1 tbsp thyme leaves; 50g raisins; 2 tbsp pine nuts; handful chopped flat-leaf parsley to serve

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Chicken with saffron, raisins & pine nuts

Chicken with saffron, raisins & pine nuts

Thomasina Miers

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 55 mins

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This full-flavoured Spanish dish is great for the family or entertaining friends midweek

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Ingredients

Nutrition

Units:

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1 ¼kg chicken

jointed and on the bone (ask your butcher to do this for you or see Know-how)
2 tbsp olive oil
2 onions

chopped
3 garlic cloves

chopped
good pinch of saffron

(about 20 strands)
125ml glass dry sherry

(such as Fino or Manzanilla)
200ml chicken stock
1 tbsp thyme leaves
50g raisins
2 tbsp pine nuts
handful chopped flat-leaf parsley

to serve

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal587
fat37g
saturates9g
carbs17g
sugars15g
fibre1g
protein45g
salt0.68g

low

Method

step 1

Heat a large frying pan on a high heat and season the chicken. Add the olive oil to the pan, then the chicken. Brown for about 5 mins on each side, remove onto a plate, then set aside.
step 2

Lower the heat to medium. In the remaining fat, fry the onions for 3 mins, then add the garlic and saffron. Cook for 3-4 mins more. Add the sherry, then simmer for 3-5 mins until syrupy.
step 3

Put the chicken leg pieces back into the pan, tip in the stock, thyme and raisins, cover, then gently cook on a low heat for 20 mins. Add the breast meat and any juices left on the plate. Simmer for 10 mins more until cooked through and the sauce in the pan has reduced.
step 4

While the chicken is cooking, heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Scatter the pine nuts over a baking sheet, then roast for 10 mins until golden and toasted. Once the chicken has cooked through, season to taste, scatter with pine nuts and parsley, then serve with rice.

RECIPE TIPS

KNOW-HOW

If you can’t get to a butcher, why not try jointing your own chicken? Or, buy a pack of two chicken legs and a pack of two breasts, then cut the legs into drumsticks and thighs and the breasts in half.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2009

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