All Easy Recipes. Cook all that you can cook. Chicken With Citron Peel
(Makalli)
 
What You Need:            (To Serve: 2 - 4)
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  • 1 chicken
  • 1 leek
  • 1 preserved citron
  • ½ teaspoon powdered saffron
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • A little more than ½ pint olive oil
  • 6 stoned olives

    • How To Cook:
    1. Clean the chicken and put it with neck and liver in an earthenware dish.

    2. Pound together in a mortar the leek and half the citron peel.

    3. Mix well with tablespoon water, the saffron and salt; spread this over the chicken.

    4. Add the ginger, olive oil and 1 pint water and simmer for 1 hour or until the chicken is nearly tender, basting it occasionally with the liquid.

    5. Add the olives and remaining chopped citron peel and heat up for a few minutes before serving.
    		 
    		 
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