Name: Chicken with Prunes, Pine Nuts and Sausage
Yield: Serves 4–6
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 medium onion, finely chopped; 1 small carrot, finely chopped; 150 ml chicken stock; ½ tsp sugar; 1 kg ripe chopped tomatoes (not necessary to peel or deseed them) or 2 tins chopped tomatoes; 1 glass dry white wine; 2 medium cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed; a 10 cm stick of celery, finely chopped; 1 tsp ground coriander; ¼ tsp fennel seeds; ¼ tsp fresh thyme; 4 tbsp each pine nuts, raisins, diced dried apricots, and dried pitted prunes; 4 small chorizo or other spicy sausages or black pudding; a 3 cm piece of orange peel; 3 parsley sprigs; 1 bay leaf; 1 tsp salt; 3 tbsp duck fat or olive oil; a 1.75–2 kg free-range chicken; flour

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

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