Recipes

Sweet-Sour Chicken Sauce
  • Ingredients
  • 5 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 medium-size onion, thinly sliced
  • 2 tablespoons pine nuts or slivered almonds
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
  • 6 Roma tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon each firmly packed brown sugar
  • and dried currants
  • 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 3/4 cup dry red wine
  • 2 whole chicken breasts (about 1 pound each),
  • skinned, boned, and split
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • chopped parsley
Directions
  1. Heat 1/4 cup of the oil in a wide frying pan over medium heat
  2. Add onion and pine nuts and cook, stirring, until onion is soft (about 5 minutes)
  3. Stir in garlic, tomatoes, sugar, currants, vinegar, all- spice, and wine
  4. Adjust heat so mixture boils gen- tly
  5. Continue to cook, uncovered, stirring occasion- ally, until sauce is slightly thickened (12 to 15 min- utes) . Meanwhile, rinse chicken and pat dry
  6. Brush on all sides with remaining 1 tablespoon oil
  7. Place a ridged cooktop grill pan over medium heat; heat until a drop of water dances on the surface
  8. Place chicken on hot pan and cook, turning once, until well browned on outside and no longer pink in cen- ter; cut chicken in thickest part to test (about 10 minutes total)
  9. You can also grill chicken on an outdoor grill using a little garlic, olive oil, butter and lemon juice as a baste. Season tomato sauce to taste with salt and pep- per
  10. Add hot pasta and gently toss
  11. Transfer to a warm deep platter
  12. Cut chicken into 1/2-inch-wide strips and arrange around edge of pasta
  13. Garnish with parsley
  14. Serves 4.


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