Name: Chicken with Almonds and Honey
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Swedish
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 tablespoons olive oil; chopped fresh parsley or coriander, to garnish; a generous dollop of honey; 1 tablespoon grated fresh root ginger; 300 ml (½ pint) chicken stock; 100 g (4 oz) blanched almonds; 3 large onions, sliced; 75 g (3 oz) butter; generous pinch of saffron strands; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 large free-range chicken, jointed into small pieces

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd's Fjord Fiesta

By Keith Floyd

Published 1998

About

A summer Sunday morning in Stockholm city. What dish could be more pleasant than chicken cooked with almonds and saffron in front of the headquarters of the Nobel Prize committee? Answers on a postcard.

Ingredients

4 tablespoons olive oil
1 large free-range chicken, jointed into small pieces
generous pinch of

Method

Heat the olive oil in a large, deep-sided frying-pan or saucepan and fry the chicken pieces for about 10 minutes, until the outside is crispy and golden brown. Add the saffron and ginger, and some salt and pepper, and stir-fry for a couple of minutes. Pour in the stock, bring to the boil, cover and reduce the heat. Cook gently for about 30 minutes or so, checking occasionally to see that there

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