Chicken with Prunes, Pine Nuts and Sausage

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Classic Bull

By Stephen Bull

Published 2001

  • About

This is my version of a Catalan dish, which I presume came to Spain via the Moors of Africa as it contains so many Moroccan elements. By the time it’s finished this dish is quite rich, so you could easily leave out one or two of the dried fruits if you haven’t got them, or just disagree with me.

Ingredients

  • a 1.75–2 kg free-range chicken
  • flour
  • 3 tbsp duck fat or olive oil

Method

Remove the breast meat (including the wing bones) from the chicken, and the legs, cut off at the thighs. Make a stock with the carcass as indicated. Cut each piece of chicken in half to make 8 pieces. Remove the skin if you find it easy (it won’t be crisp after cooking). Put some flour in a paper bag and shake the pieces in it one by one. Get 2 tbsp of th