Rotisserie Chicken With Dried Fruit and Pine Nuts

Submitted by TxGriffLover

"Pollo Con Frutos Y Frutas Secas This recipe is as practical as it is inventive. It features a store-bought rotisserie chicken that's deliciously doctored with a sauce of dried fruit, pine nuts and port wine. Though you can whip up the dish in less than half an hour, the flavors are sophisticated enough for a fancy dinner party. You can roast your own chicken, if you wish. Adapted from "The New Spanish Table" cookbook."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1⁄2 cup pitted prunes
• 1⁄2 cup dried apricot
• 1⁄4 cup pitted dried sour cherries
• 2 tablespoons pine nuts
• 1 strip orange zest, white pith removed (4 inches)
• 1 strip lemon zest, white pith removed (4 inches)
• 1⁄2 cup tawny port
• 1 small cinnamon stick
• 2⁄3 cup chicken stock
• 1 store-bought rotisserie chicken, cut into 8 pieces, juices reserved (about 3 1/2 pounds)

directions

1. Preheat the oven to 425º.
2. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the prunes, apricots, cherries, pine nuts, and orange and lemon zests and cook, stirring, until the pine nuts turn golden and the fruits are browned in spots, 3-5 minutes. Add the port and cinnamon stick and cook until syrupy, about 5 minutes. Add the chicken stock, and reserved chicken juices. Increase the heat to high, bring the sauce to a boil, and cook until reduced, about 5 minutes.
3. Place the chicken pieces in a baking dish that can hold them snugly. Pour the sauce over them, scraping up all the fruit and liquid from the bottom of the skillet and turning the chicken to coat it with the sauce. Bake the chicken until it is warmed through and the sauce is further reduced, about 10 minutes. Transfer to plates and serve at once.

Reviews

[info9420]

Food and Wine has an almost identical recipe but I'll try yours instead. They only add the chicken to the sauce for one minute before serving. I like the idea of reducing the sauce a little more the way you did!

 

[realbirdlady]

An interesting way to dress up a pre-made meal. The amount of sauce was a little scant for the amount of chicken, so I would increase it next time. There is so little pine nuts that they really aren't noticeable in the final dish, so I would omit this expensive ingredient. We adapted this to be kid-friendly by making the sauce ahead of time (with adult supervision), so that a child could tear apart the rotisserie chicken and warm it with sauce in the microwave. We substituted pomegranate juice and some sweetener for the port.