Chicken in Walnut Sauce

Main Dishes | Abkhazian cuisine

⏳ Time

1 hour 30 minutes

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Recipe taken from the book 'Abkhazian Cuisine' published by 'Exmo'.

Ingredients

Poultry - 1 piece
Walnuts - 12.3 oz
Onion - 3 heads
Garlic - 4 cloves
Clarified Butter - 2.5 oz
Adjika - 1 tablespoon
Cilantro - 1 bunch
Mixed spices for Christmas pudding - 1 teaspoon
Black Pomegranate Molasses - to taste
Salt - to taste

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Cut the chicken into serving pieces, place in a pot, cover with cold water, bring to a boil, add salt, and simmer on low heat for 40–60 minutes until cooked. Skim the foam from the broth as it cooks.

Step 2

In a cast-iron pot, heat the clarified butter and transfer the pieces of boiled chicken into it.

Step 3

Chop the onion, mix it with adjika, and add it to the chicken, simmering on low heat for 10 minutes.

Step 4

Pass the walnuts through a meat grinder twice. Crush the garlic with salt and herbs, mix with the walnuts, and add 3 cups of warm chicken broth.

Step 5

Pour the walnut sauce into the pot with the chicken and simmer for another 10 minutes. A few minutes before finishing, add the pomegranate juice. Serve immediately.