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Easy chicken recipe with prunes Easy chicken recipe with a dash of wine. This chicken stew recipe is a traditional mountain dish from the beautiful Montseny natural park, not far away from Barcelona.
The Montseny region is where Santi Santamaria -the first Catalan chef to be awarded three stars by the Michelin guide- opened his first restaurant when he was a completely unknown self-taught chef. This recipe includes vi ranci, which is a wine left to mature many years under very specific conditions. It is used often in Catalan cuisine, but if you don't find it, you can replace it with white wine.
Ingredients for this easy chicken recipe Serves 4 to 6 - 1 whole medium-sized chicken - cut into 8 bone-in pieces
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 clove garlic - peeled
- 1 stick cinnamon
- 2 bay leaves
- 8 fresh oregano leaves (or 1 teaspoon dried oregano leaves)
- 1 cup vi ranci or white wine
- 10 prunes - whole
- 1 ounce pine nuts - whole
- 1 cup chicken broth
- Salt
Easy chicken recipe preparation instructions - Sprinkle salt over the chicken cuts and let them rest for an hour.
- Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a medium-sized casserole pot over medium heat. Add the garlic, the stick cinnamon, and the bay and oregano leaves. Brown for 5 minutes over medium heat, turn the chicken pieces over, and cook for another 5 minutes.
- When the chicken begins to turn golden, pour the cup of wine over it, and add the prunes and the pine nuts. Turn down the heat to low, cover and cook for about 30 minutes.
- Tradition advises to serve it with a salad. This easy chicken recipe serves 6 if you had a first course, or 4 if you eat this chicken as a main dish with only a raw vegetable salad and dessert.
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Notes on the easy chicken recipe I have given here the recipe for a whole chicken cut into eight pieces, each quarter halved, but you can prepare the same recipe with four pieces of chicken breasts or legs, or mixed. It is advisable, though, to include at least one chicken leg, because the meat is juicier and it makes this easy chicken recipe more appetizing. If you don't have chicken broth at home, you can add water instead. But then the taste of this easy chicken recipe will be less intense.
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