Chicken With Sweet Onion Sauce (Kammama): Savory chicken with sweet caramelized onions and optionally, tomatoes. 🐓🧅
Recipe by Latifah Bennani-Smires
Ingredients for 2 chickens weighing about 3 lbs each
4 kg (9 lbs) of onions
1 kg (2 lbs 3 oz) of tomatoes (optional)
1 heaped teaspoonful of pepper
1 coffeespoonful of saffron (mixed packet saffron and crushed saffron flowers)
250 g (9 oz) of butter
4 to 5 rounded soupspoonfuls of sugar
1 rounded soupspoonful of cinnamon
1 stick of cinnamon salt
Cut the chickens in pieces. Put them in a thick-bottomed saucepan with the offal.
Add salt, saffron, pepper, butter, the stick of cinnamon and one sliced onion and a glassful of water.
Boil for a few minutes over a moderate heat and mix the spices well. Add the onions, cut in rings 1 cm (½”) thick, and the tomatoes, peeled, seeded and cut in half. After a few minutes boiling, remove the chicken pieces and put them in an oven-proof dish.
Immediately add the sugar and cinna...
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