Renaissance Time Chicken

This recipe is from Croatian culinary TV show called “Food from forgotten times”. The recipe is from island Hvar. It may sound rough, but when you cooked it you will taste delicate chicken meal. Since the recipe is before America was discovered, there are no tomatoes or potatoes, so as side dish serve rice or flour noodles or just pasta (penne, rigatoni or spaghetti) or nothing but bread.

• Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
• Serves: 4
• Yields: 4 portions

Ingredients

• 1800  g chicken, piece or 1800  g whole chickens
• 400  g onions
• 1  cup olive oil
• 15  g salt
• 15  g black peppercorns
• 15  g capers
• 4  g cloves or 5  whole cloves
• 5  g garlic (or 1 larger garlic clove)
• 1 1⁄2 cups dry white wine (preferably malvasia)
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 5  g fresh rosemary
• 1  bay leaf
• 20  g raisins
• 3  cups water (you may not spent all water)

Directions

1. Cut chicken into pieces and salt it.
2. Mince onion.
3. Add olive oil into a pot and heat. Add onion and sauté it until translucent.
4. Add chicken pieces, sauté it until white and add roughly grounded peppercorn, capers, cloves, roughly minced garlic, cinnamon, rosemary, bay leaf and wine.
5. Cook 30 minutes and add raisins. Salt if necessary.
6. Cook for more 15 to 20 minutes. That is it.