Name: Madfunia
Yield: Serves 4 generously as a main course
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 tsp + 1 tsp salt; 8 chicken thighs with skin and bones (about 1kg); 100 g golden raisins; 3 large onions, peeled and thinly sliced (about 400g); 6 cloves of garlic, peeled and halved lengthways; 240 ml water; 3 tbsp date molasses or honey; 1 tsp cayenne pepper; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 2 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp white pepper; 1 tbsp olive oil; 100 g kadaif pastry; 250 g pre-cooked whole chestnuts

Preparation info

Serves
4
generously as a main course

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Honey & Co

By Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer

Published 2014

About

We wanted something festive for the holidays. Turkey was not an option (and should never be, in our opinion). We thought of the grand Moroccan party dish that is called sometimes shaariya medfouna, a rich tagine buried under a mound of buttered noodles. Our tagine not only had chestnuts and sultanas but all the sweet spice of Christmas and a fancy hat made of crunchy kadaif pastry, to leave no one in any doubt as to what time of year it was.