Sumac baked chicken with pine nuts
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| Sumac baked chicken with pine nuts | |
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| Sumac baked chicken with pine-nuts | |
| Servings: | Serves 4 |
| Ready in: | 1 hour 15 minutes |
| Prep. time: | 15 minutes |
| Cook time: | 1 hour |
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This recipe was inspired by one of the marvelous 'Moro' cookbooks from Sam and Sam Clarke. Sumac, a sharp, lemony powder, ground from red berries give this dish its distinctive fresh taste. Serve with simple tomato salad, a creamy-garlic hummus, home-made pitta breads and you will be in Casablanca - possibly.
Ingredients
Ingredients
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- 4 tablespoons olive oil.
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- 1 medium chicken, jointed, as shown here, skin on.
- 12 spring onions, roughly chopped.
- 2 tablespoons sumac powder.
- A pinch of oregano.
- 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar.
- Small pinch of cumin seeds, bruised in a mortar and pestle.
- 50 g pine nuts.
- 3 tablespoons water.
Mise en place
- Preheat the oven to 220° C (425° F - gas 7)
Method
- Heat 3 tablespoons of the oil a small oven-proof casserole dish or Dutch oven.
- Season the chicken pieces with salt and pepper and brown them, skin-side first, a few at a time and reserve. Discard the oil.
- Lay the onions in the base of the pan and sprinkle with half of the sumac, the remaining tablespoons of oil, salt, pepper, 1 tablespoon of the sherry vinegar and the cumin seeds and a pinch of oregano.
- Place the chicken pieces on top, skin-side up. Sprinkle with the pine nuts and the remaining sumac.
- Heat the pan for a 3 or 4 minutes on the hob just to get it sizzling then place in the oven and bake for 35 minutes.
- Place the chicken pieces on a pre-heated serving dish, deglaze the pan with the remaining tablespoons of sherry vinegar, add the water and mix well to produce a sauce.
- Pour over the chicken and serve immediately.
Serving suggestions
Serve with hummus, home-made pitta bread and a simple tomato salad.
Variations
I added a whole onion, roughly chopped, with the spring onions.
See also
- Get chicken pieces the economical way, joint the chicken yourself