Chicken with walnuts and apricots …..adulterated from Vogue Entertaining
We love a dinner where you can just throw it all in and walk away. This is a slightly spicy Moroccan dish that is sensational with couscous or rice
You need: (for 4 hungry dags, 3 skinny men or 25 fashionistas)
2 tablespoons olive oil
20g butter 2 onions, thinly sliced
4 to 6 chicken pieces
3cm piece ginger, finely chopped
1 cinnamon quill, broken in half 175g soft
semi-dried apricots (Soft, semi-dried apricots do not need to be soaked before using. This is good. )
300ml chicken or vegetable stock
1 tablespoon honey cup walnut halves
Bunch of coriander Rice or couscous to serve
- pour wine
- Find a saucepan with a lid that will hold 4 to 6 chicken breasts. Throw off new $5000 Balenciaga heels that look like trainers. Put on old trainers.
- Take off Hermes Cape Cod watch. Gently. Admire it. Ponder if you should change the band to white now it’s summer?
- Get out the onions Put on new Tom Ford sunglasses to counteract onion tears
- Chop the onions as thin as a Black Amex Wipe away tears.
- George Clooney is not serious about young model girlfriend
- Pull off the false eyelashes that have taken a dive onto cheek
- Heat half the oil and the naughty butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.
- Smells delicious non? Toss in onions and cook until they have a beautiful tan like Nicole Richie
- Take out the onions and set them aside for a little philosophical, Zen time on their own.You could have some Zen time too if you had another glass of wine
- Add remaining oil and naughty butter, and cook chicken pieces on both sides until brown as an Hermes caramel
- throw in the butter and don’t think about the calories. Please.
- This may be a good time to put on the rice or couscous. Put on as in cook not wear. Now add the cooked onions, ginger, cinnamon, apricots, stock and honey, and bring to the boil. They love it
- Reduce the heat to low - medium, and cook for about 35 - 40 minutes with the lid on. Think facemask that is holding in moisture. You want the chicken so that it is just tender because you will cook it for another 10 minutes with walnuts.
- Don’t over cook it or you will have a Mulberry vintage leather bag instead of chicken
- Now throw in the walnuts and simmer it without aid for about 10 minutes.
- Check that the chicken is tender and just about falling off the bone. No more wine or you will be falling off the bone too
- Accessorise with the Miu Miu green coriander
- Take out the cinnamon stick so no one breaks a tooth or nail
- And serve the chicken relaxing happily with its feet up on a soft and bed of rice or couscous. Divine.
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