Rose Water Chicken Recipe Ingredients

Rose Water Chicken

Ingredients:

• 1 large chicken, hacked into pieces (I just bought two skin-on breasts and some drumsticks rather than hacking up a chicken, so that’s an option too).
• 2 onions, roughly chopped
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• A generous pinch of saffron threads
• Juice & zest of one lemon
• 1/4 cup cold water
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1 cup unskinned hazelnuts
• 3/4 cups honey
• 2 tbsp rose water

In a large bowl, mix the chicken pieces with the onions, olive oil, ginger, cinnamon, saffron, lemon juice, salt & pepper.  Marinate for at least one hour or overnight.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Spread nuts on a rimmed cookie sheet (or in the toaster oven) and roast for 10 minutes, until lightly browned.  

Chop roughly and set aside.  Handover chicken and marinade to a large roasting tray.  Arrange the chicken skin side up and roast uncovered for 35 minutes.  Meanwhile, mix the honey, rosewater and chopped nuts together to form a paste.  Remove chicken from oven and spread nut mixture over all of the pieces. Return to the oven for 5-10 minutes, until the chicken is cooked and the nuts are toasty brown.  Transfer to a serving dish.