Chicken braised with pomegranate

Please don’t confuse this with fesenjan or fesenjoon, the famous Iranian chicken with pomegranate molasses and a hefty amount of ground walnuts that has been celebrated a lot recently in Western media. You see, fesenjan, like so many other Iranian stew (khoresh) recipes, is a ‘mould’ that you can fill with almost any ingredient. In fesenjan, just like Circassian chicken, the defining characteristic is the abundant use of