Name: Cinnamon Chicken with Sweet Onion Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: North African
Ingredients: 4 large onions; 4 chicken joints; ¼ pint (150 ml) water; 1½ teaspoons (3 X 2.5 ml spoon) ground cinnamon; 3 oz (75 g) butter or margarine; salt, black pepper; chopped fresh mint, to garnish; 1 rounded tablespoon (2 X 15 ml spoon) soft brown sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Curries and Oriental Cookery

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1980

About

In this North African dish joints of chicken are cooked under a blanket of sweet, translucent onions in a glossy sauce. I like to serve it with brown rice or pearl barley, and broad beans or peas go well with it.

Ingredients

4 large onions
4 chicken joints
3 oz (75

Method

Peel the onions and slice in fairly thick rings. Put the onion and chicken joints in a large saucepan with the butter or margarine, cinnamon and water. Season with salt and pepper. Heat gently until the butter has melted, then bring to the boil, cover the pan and simmer for about 5 minutes.

Heat the oven to Gas Mark 6/