Can you smell my Apricot chicken cooking?

[freddie*rooster]

Apricot Chicken Casserole
2 tablespoons oil
1.5 kg chicken drumsticks/pieces
¼ cup plain flour
1 large onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons ground coriander
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon turmeric
2 cups chicken stock
2x 400g tins apricot halves (or 1 large tin), drained, juice reserved
4 medium carrots, peeled and chopped into 2cm chunks (optional)

Preheat oven to 160°C.

Process/blend half of the drained apricots  with 1/2 cup reserved syrup.

Put chicken pieces into a plastic bag and add flour. Shake flour through until pieces are coated. Heat oil in a heavy based casserole dish. Brown chicken on all sides, in two batches. Remove chicken from pan and set aside.

Sauté onion and garlic in the same pan until tender. Stir through spices and fry one minute until aromatic. Add chicken stock and blended apricots and juice, and bring to the boil, scraping bits off the bottom of the pan. Return chicken legs to pan and reduce heat to a slow simmer. Add remaining apricot halves and carrots.  Cover dish with lid and transfer to the oven and cook for 1 hour. Remove lid and cook for a further half hour.

Serve on top of steamed rice, sprinkled with chopped fresh coriander or parsley.

[polksaladallie]

Thank you Allie.  I'll check out the website now, and make the apple crumble tomorrow.  Can you substitute anything for the coconut?     

All I can suggest is Am3's suggestion of rolled oats.  But the coconut makes it lovely and crumbly and yummy.

[cueperkins]

katy...you can't mean to tell me you don't have Brandy in your Pantry?:O...how can anyone cook gourmet sauces without it?....Same goes for Dijon Mustard.  Mate there are so many pan cooked recipes using this exact sauce base and different ingredients. 

Once you learn how to do the basic sauce you can change it to Pepper Steak, Scaloppine Funghi, Pollo Funghi, Steak Diane....even a more up market garlic prawns and much more.

Damn, now my mouth is watering.

[cherry*135]

mrswormwood - I will try the demerara sugar in the crumble topping..sounds good.

[katydidthat]

Thanks, Allie ... I am trying to make things  with what I've got ... I've been awake since about 2.30 am and am hoping to have a quiet day tomorrow.  But, then again, I'm going to need cream for the apple crumble ... so coconut is possible.

Cue, no, I don't have brandy ... I do have Dijon mustard 🙂 and soy sauce, and fish sauce, and Worcestershire sauce, and oyster sauce, and black bean sauce, and ... and ... and ...

But, I don't like brandy very much.

With the chicken, I added butter to the frying pan, then chicken breasts, then chicken stock, and par-cooked the chicken.  Then I added onion, tomatoes and celery.  Then a slice of lemon and some cooked potatoes.  

In a bit, I'm going to remove the chicken and rest it with the potatoes, and add the rest of the mix to a bunch of kale with more stock and more butter .... and I'll put some oven-cook rolls in the oven and call it a day.  

[the_bob_delusion]

I'm always a bit suspect when you mix fruit and meat.

[freddie*rooster]

Bob, you need to get out more 😉

[rabbitearbandicoot]

Something's BURNING !!!!

[freddie*rooster]

How's Sue rabbit?

[katydidthat]

Well, we just ate dinner.  The chicken was very tender, the kale was tasty. The bread rolls were crusty and warm.  

And, now I just want to go to bed, but it's only 6 pm.

*sigh*

[freddie*rooster]

Sounds like you enjoyed your dinner Katy, you could do a pretendy that's it 10p.m.