Armenian Stuffed Chicken Amich
Main Dishes | Armenian cuisine
⏳ Time
1 hour
🥕 Ingredients
11
🍽️ Servings
6
Description
Amich is sometimes referred to as Armenian chicken. The essence is that the chicken is roasted, stuffed with rice and dried fruits. It turns out sweet and spicy: the rice is mixed with dates, apricots, almonds, and raisins, seasoned with cloves, cinnamon, and black pepper. Most likely, there will be more rice with dried fruits than needed to stuff the chicken—feel free to place it in a baking dish alongside.
Ingredients
- Poultry - 1 piece
- Almond - 2.3 oz
- Dates - 4.9 oz
- Dried Apricots - 1.4 oz
- Butter - 2.8 oz
- Raisins - 1.4 oz
- Ground clove - ½ spoons
- Cinnamon - ½ spoons
- Basmati rice - 4.1 oz
- Salt - to taste
- Ground Black Pepper - to taste
Step by Step guide
Step 1
Place the rinsed rice in a pot with cold water, bring to a boil, and cook on high heat for 7 minutes. Then, drain the water and let the rice dry.
Step 2
Heat 20 grams of butter in a skillet and sauté the rice, stirring, for 2 minutes.
Step 3
Soak the dried apricots and dates in warm water for 15 minutes. Then drain and chop into small pieces, removing the pits from the dates.
Step 4
In a clean skillet, heat 40 grams of butter and sauté the almonds, dried apricots, raisins, and dates for 5 minutes.
Step 5
Combine the rice with the sautéed nuts and dried fruits.
Step 6
Season with salt, pepper, cloves, and cinnamon.
Step 7
Do not stuff the chicken too tightly with the mixture. Seal the opening with wooden skewers or kitchen twine.
Step 8
Sauté the chicken in 20 grams of oil until the skin is golden brown.
Step 9
Transfer the chicken to a baking dish, drizzle with the remaining oil, and pour half a cup of water into the dish.
Step 10
Place in a preheated oven at 356°F for 45 minutes, basting the chicken with the juices from the pan occasionally.
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