How to cook a Persian dish - tangerine chicken stew? I present a step by step recipe with a photo and video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Persian cuisine surprises with its unusual and magnificent dishes. For example, worthy of the royal table - chicken with tangerines. This is a very unusual duet, but true gourmets and connoisseurs of delicious food, the dish will definitely delight with its exotic bouquet of aromas and tastes. Chicken meat is generally one of the most versatile. It cannot be compared with any other, especially when it comes to sweet and sour combinations. The chicken gratefully accepts all sorts of sauces based on this combination. It is pleasant freshness, light sweet note and tangerine citrus sauce. Due to the fact that the recipe does not use zest, the taste of tangerines is unobtrusive and does not overshadow the taste of chicken.
Try to cook an unusual duet of chicken and tangerines. After all, this dish is prepared simply and quickly. To prepare it, you will need a frying pan with raised sides so that splashes do not scatter during frying. If such a deep frying pan is not available, then use a rounded "wok". Thanks to this method of cooking, the chicken meat is juicy and tender, and the tangerines will retain the shape of the slices, while softening the inside.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 125 kcal.
- Servings - 3-4
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken - 1 pc.
- Mandarins - 3-4 pcs.
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Dried basil - 1 tsp
Step-by-step cooking of stewed chicken with tangerines, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the chicken and pat dry with a paper towel. Chop the bird into convenient chunks that you want to be at ease. If you want to make the dish less greasy, remove the skin from the bird.
2. Peel the onions, rinse and chop into half rings. Peel the tangerines and divide into wedges.
3. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat. Add chicken and fry until golden brown. For the first 5-7 minutes, cook it over high heat so that it is covered with a golden brown crust, which will seal the juice in them. Then screw the temperature down to medium and continue cooking for another 10-15 minutes.
4. Send onions to the bird. Stir and fry the food until the vegetable is translucent.
5. Place the tangerines in the pan.
6. Season the dish with salt, ground pepper, herbs and spices to taste. Pour in 100 ml of water and boil. Screw the temperature down to low, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the chicken for 45 minutes.
7. Serve the finished dish to the table with any side dish. Put the chicken on a plate along with the tangerine wedges.
See also the video recipe on how to cook chicken with tangerines.
