Cashew Cream Chicken

Here is a showcase of chicken at its most festive and luxurious and yet, pleasingly, it is deceptively simple to cook. Cashew nuts make a silky cream sauce that has sweetness from caramelised onion and a subtle but definite prick of chilli heat fortified by judicious spicing. Scattered with a flourish of glassy red pomegranate seeds, it makes a splendid party dish or rather fine picnic fare if cooked in advance and chilled so the sauce thickens.

The recipe comes from the Parsi commu