Savoury-sweet chicken

This chicken dish originates from Catalonia but is a legacy of Arab occupation.  The sweetness is provided by honey but with additional flavours of garlic, lemon and cumin.  It is a wonderful combination.

Preparation Time: 10 Mins

Cooking Time: 35 Mins

Total Time: 1 Day

Ingredients

For 6 servings…

1                    Chicken  - jointed into 8 pieces 

For the marinade

4 tbs               Olive oil    

8 tsp               Honey  - runny        

1                    Lemon  - juice of      

6 cloves           Garlic  - crushed      

1 tbs               Cumin  - ground      

                     Pepper      

                     Salt          

Method

To make the marinade…

Mix all the marinade ingredients together.

To prepare and cook the chicken…

Put the chicken pieces into a dish, pour the marinade over them cover the dish loosely, refrigerate and leave for anything from half an hour to 24 hours.  Turn over the chicken in the marinade every so often.

Put the chicken pieces into a roasting tin, with whatever marinade is left still adhering to it, and cook at 18O°C for35 minutes.  Serve.

Wine recommendations

A robust white wine.

Conventional

     Côte Chalonnaise blanc

Interesting

     Côtes du Rhône blanc

     Riesling

     Rioja bianco

     Vouvray sec