Chicken Ambrosino "good and perfect and such"

Chicken Ambrosino
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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 8
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 287.1
  • Total Fat: 7.9 g
  • Cholesterol: 68.4 mg
  • Sodium: 115.2 mg
  • Total Carbs: 20.8 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 4.7 g
  • Protein: 29.6 g

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Introduction

This recipe is a sweet and sour chicken with fruit recipe based on one found in a 14th century Venetian cooking manuscript. For fun I'm blogging my way through cooking all 135 recipes in this manuscript you can see my other experiements here: http://allvenicechannel.dreamwidth.org/ This recipe is a sweet and sour chicken with fruit recipe based on one found in a 14th century Venetian cooking manuscript. For fun I'm blogging my way through cooking all 135 recipes in this manuscript you can see my other experiements here: http://allvenicechannel.dreamwidth.org/
Number of Servings: 8

Ingredients

    4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
    Extra virgin or light olive oil for sauteeing
    12 oz (1 1/2 cup) plain unsweetened almond milk
    2 oz currants (1 cup)
    2 oz dates ( 1 cup, I cut into rounds)
    2 oz prunes (1 cup, I cut into 1/4),
    1/4 oz (1tsp) fresh ginger,
    1/12 whole (1/2 tsp) nutmeg freshly grated
    1/6 oz (1/4 tsp) cloves
    1/6 oz (1/4 tsp) saffron,
    1/2 oz (2tsp) ground cinnamon

Directions

Brown chicken pieces in olive oil, until well but not over browned (this took about 15-20 minutes each side). Grind almonds for almond milk, soak ground almonds in 3times the volume of red wine or balsamic vinegar, or use store bought almond milk. Drain fat then return chicken to pan, strain solids from almond milk (if you've made your own) and add to pan with chicken, spices, splenda to taste (to balance the vinegar's pucker) and fruit to simmer down for sauce- until chicken is done by meat thermeter &/or juices run clear (it took approx. 30 minutes). Plate chicken then top with sauce, and slivered almonds.


Number of Servings: 8

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user RENAISSANCWOMAN.