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Chicken stew with pitted prunes and carrots is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken stew with pitted prunes and carrots is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Pitted prunes( Aloo bokhara in farsi) have sour taste and brown-orange colour. That is why this stew has sweet and sour taste. You can replace black pitted plums which is easily avaiable in middle eastern grocery store.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken stew with pitted prunes and carrots using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken stew with pitted prunes and carrots:
- Take 1 kg chicken drum sticks and breasts
- Take 500 gram carrots cut to sticks
- Make ready 250 gram persian pitted prunes
- Make ready 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- Get 2 large onions, finely chopped
- Prepare 2 cardamoms
- Take 3 cm cinnamon stick
- Get 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Get Few saffron threads soake in 1 table spoonhot water
- Prepare Salt
- Prepare Canola oil
Add the prunes and enough boiling water to almost cover the meatballs. Add the saffron and lower the heat. Cover the pan and simmer for thirty minutes or until the carrots and prunes are cooked through. Add lemon juice and a pinch of sugar to taste and adjust the seasoning.
Steps to make Chicken stew with pitted prunes and carrots:
- Prepare one frying pan and one pot with lid. First heat the oil in frying pan and fry one of the chopped onions until brown and crispy. Remove from oil and put aside until needed.
- Heat the oil in the pot. Saute other onion in oil until they change colour and become soft. Add turmeric powder, cardamoms and cinnamon and stir few second.
- Add chicken pieces, fry until chicken no more pink. Add tomato paste, saute few minutes, now add carrots and saute few minutes. Add salt and enough water to cover the ingredients. Bring the stew to boil. Cover the pot and let is simmer until chicken half cooked.
- Add washed pitted prunes, crispy brown onion, saffron water and continue for about 30 minutes until stew become tick.(if using black pitted plum you may need add half cup fresh lemon juice now to adjust the flavour.).Serve it with steamed plain long grain rice.
Put butter in small flameproof roasting pan and put pan in oven. Pat chicken dry and sprinkle with thyme and salt and pepper to taste. Add the chicken and turn to coat. Pitted prunes( Aloo bokhara in farsi) have sour taste and brown-orange colour. That is why this stew has sweet and sour taste.
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