Chicken With Chic Peas & Apricots.

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Ingredients:

4 large chicken breasts each cut
1 into three pieces.
1 dried red chili.
1 small cinnamon stick.
5 ml 1 tsp cumin seeds.
4 green cardamom pods.
8 cloves
25 cm 1 inch piece fresh root
1 ginger peeled and finely
1 chopped
2 cloves of garlic crushed.
100 g 4 oz dried no soak apricots
150 ml 0,25 pt water.
10 ml 2 tsp sunflower oil.
1 large onion peeled and chopped.
15 ml 1 tbsp tomato pure.
15 ml 1 tbsp white malt vinegar.
10 ml 2 tsp sugar.
400 g 14 oz canned chic peas
1 drained

Instructions:

Place the chicken in a large non-porous bowl. Put the chili, cinnamon,
cumin, cardamom pods and cloves into a spice grinder and grind as
fine as possible. Rub half the spice mixture into the chicken with
half the ginger and garlic. Set aside for at least one hour. Cook the
apricots in the water until tender. Leave to cool in the pan. Heat a
wok. Add the oil and cook the onion for 7 minutes stirring
frequently. Stir in the rest of the ginger and garlic and cook for a
further minute. Remove the onion mixture. Add the chicken and cook
for 3 minutes until lightly cooked. Add the remaining spice mixture
and onion mixture and cook for a further 2 minutes. Stir in the
tomato pure, vinegar, sugar, chic peas and apricots with the cooking
juice. Cook for 15 minutes and serve.

VARIATIONS

Use 450 G or 1 lb leg of lamb chops instead of chicken. Cook for 30
minutes instead of 15 minutes at the end of cooking.

Alternatively for the spices mix together a pinch of chili powder,
2,5 ml 0,5 tsp ground cinnamon 5 ml 1 tsp ground cumin 2,5 ml 0,5 tsp
garam masala.

Servings: 4

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Chicken is ideal
for weight loss
and dieting

Healthy eating is far better than strict dieting, and weight loss achieved by a change of lifestyle lasts far longer than 'faddy' diets that are difficult to adopt for long periods.

Cooking more low fat chicken can enable you to lose weight gradually as part of a a controlled and healthy diet.

"We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was." Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)