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Chicken breasts with pistaccio

Added by jlsinacio | Wed 28 Jan 2009 @ 12:03

Chicken breasts with pistaccio

Ingredients
Chicken breasts ( 1/2 by person)
Olive oil
1- Garlic bulb
1 - Onion
200 g of pistaccio without peel
Jamaica pepper
20g of Butter
Salt
White wine

Method
First you have to do the pistaccio sauce. Fill the bottom of a skillet with olive oil and the butter. Then you cut the onion in little and slim slices, and join the oil. The heat temperature must be low. Next you have to cut the pistaccios in a half and join to the skillet. Then you have to put a a little bit of salt and jamaica pepper. wait 5 minutes until the onion starts to be golden and the mixture starts to gain the colour of the pistaccios. Next you cut the garlic bulb in little slices and join the skillet. Then you sprinkler with white wine, just a bit, until you get a nice sauce (don´t let the garlic burn!), then you have to turn off the heat and let the sauce get colder.
The next step is to open the chicken breasts in a half and fill them with this sauce, the close them again.You can use alluminium foil to help to close the chicken breasts. Next you have to put the chicken breasts in the refrigerator and wait 4 hours, if you leave them until next day it's better.
Next you have to grill the chicken breasts and serve it with white rice or your favorite salad, i prefer with a tomatoe salad. :mrgreen: I hope you enjoy my recipe. any doubts ask me please!

tried this recipe or a similar one? share your tips...

1. by Pakman on Mon 12 Oct 2009 @ 15:50

I believe Jamaican Pepper is Allspice.

2. by Sonnige on Mon 12 Oct 2009 @ 13:05

That is a really yiammy recipe, I tried it a few days ago and it was extremely delicious! Though I've also tried it with some amendments (good for those hungry and in a hurry :) )
So basically ingredients are almost the same: Chicken breasts ( 1/2 by person), oil, 1 Garlic bulb, 1Onion, 200 g of pistaccio without peel, black pepper (instead of Jamaica pepper which I have no idea what is), 20g of Butter, salt and Sprite (instead of white wine).
First prepare the ingredients for the sauce: slice onion and garlic, slim and tiny; squash pistaccio so that it resembles powder (or at least little pieces). Heat the frying pan, add oil, then melt butter (if you are a fan of buttery taste like me, you can add a little more than just 20 gr of butter). Add onion and slightly fry, then add pistaccio, mix well, then in a couple of minutes add garlic. Fry for about 3-4 minutes (average temperature), then add Sprite - not so much, just to make the sauce liquid enough not to burn the chicken. Chicken should be defrosted beforehand and cut into pieces of medium size. Put chicken into the frying pan, mix it with the sauce, add salt and pepper and stew till chicken is ready. The whole process takes about 20-25 minutes (provided the chicken has been defrosted).
As the author of the recipe mentioned already, it goes nicely with white rice. Buttery taste is wonderfully underlined if you have chicken with some spicy sauce on the side. I usually always have a prepared mixture of vinegar, red hot peppers, black ground pepper and garlic (the latter being cut into small pieces) - just mix it all in a bottle and leave it for about a night.
I tried dipping this pistaccio chicken into the spicy sauce and the combination of buttery-pistaccio and spicy tastes was wonderful. Though it won't work for those who don't like spicy food.

3. by Isobel McGrory on Wed 11 Mar 2009 @ 16:21

What is Jamaica Pepper and where do you buy it?
Thanks
Isobel

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