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Chicken with Caramelized Onion and Cardamom Rice

March 9, 2016 Filed Under: Meat Meals

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Chicken with Caramelized Onion and Cardamom Rice

  • Author: Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Cook Time: 55
  • Total Time: 55 minutes
  • Yield: 4 1x
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Ingredients

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  • 2 ½ tablespoons currants
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 medium onions, thinly sliced (2 cups)
  • 2 ¼ pounds skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs (1 kilogram), or 1 whole chicken, quartered
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 10 cardamom pods
  • Rounded 1/4 teaspoon whole cloves
  • 2 long cinnamon sticks, broken in two
  • 1 ⅔ cups basmati rice
  • 2 ¼ cups boiling water
  • 1 ½ tablespoons flat-leaf parsley leaves (5 grams), chopped
  • ½ cup dill leaves, chopped
  • ¼ cup cilantro leaves, chopped
  • ⅓ cup Greek yogurt, mixed with 2 tablespoons olive oil (optional)

Instructions

  1. Heat half the olive oil in a large sauté pan for which you have a lid over medium heat. Add the onion, and cook for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onion has turned a deep golden brown. Transfer the onion to a small bowl and wipe the pan clean.
  2. Place the chicken in a large mixing bowl and season with 1½ teaspoons each salt and black pepper. Add the remaining olive oil, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon and use your hands to mix everything together well. Heat the frying pan again and place the chicken and spices in it. Sear chicken for 5 minutes on each side and remove from the pan (this is important as it part-cooks the chicken). The spices can stay in the pan, but don’t worry if they stick to the chicken. Remove most of the remaining oil as well, leaving just a thin film at the bottom. Add the rice, caramelized onion, 1 teaspoon salt and plenty of black pepper. Add the currants as well. Stir well and return the seared chicken to the pan, pushing it into the rice.
  3. Pour the boiling water over the rice and chicken, cover the pan, and cook over very low heat for 30 minutes. Take the pan off the heat, remove the lid, quickly place a clean tea towel over the pan, and seal again with the lid. Leave the dish undisturbed for another 10 minutes. Finally, add the herbs and use a fork to stir them in and fluff up the rice. Taste and add more salt and pepper if needed. Serve hot or warm with yogurt mixture if you like.

Notes

  • Not included in Large Real Food Boxes: Sugar, Olive OIl, Cardamom pods, Cloves, Cinnamon Sticks

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