Poultry Recipes - Chicken Khobani

Ingredients

• 30 ml/2 tbsp ghee

• 2 onions, sliced

• 3 cloves garlic, chopped

• 2.5 cm/1 in ginger root, chopped

• 4 green chilies, slit

• 1 chicken, skinned and cut into portions

• 2 tomatoes, skinned and chopped

• 1 cinnamon stick

• 4 cardamom pods

• salt

• 250 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup hot water

• 100 g/4 oz dried apricot halves

• 2.5 ml/1/2 tsp saffron strands

• 45 ml/3 tbsp hot milk

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Method:

1. Heat the ghee and fry the onions, garlic, ginger and chilies until lightly browned. Add the chicken and fry until browned.

2. Add the tomatoes, cinnamon, cardamom and salt and fry over a gentle heat for about 30 minutes until the chicken is almost cooked.

3. Add the apricots. Crush the saffron in the milk and add to the pan. Continue cook for about 5 minutes until the chicken is tender and the apricots are just soft.