This time I have a special combination with Mexican roots. Chicken, chocolate, wine, cinnamon, raisons, all into one dish and surprisingly delicious: Mexican style chocolate chicken. The recipe was created by Chakall, a well known Argentine cook living in Germany for a long time. Nowadays he has some restaurants in Portugal.
Mexican style chocolate chicken
Ingredients
for the chicken
- 4 chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 0,5 teaspoon cinnamon
- salt
for the chocolate-wine sauce
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 red onion
- 2 red chili peppers
- 50 ml cream
- 100 ml red wine
- 200 ml chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons dark sugar
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons raisins
- 2 tablespoons almond slices
- cilantro fresh
- hazelnut crushed
Instructions
Baking the chicken breasts
- Coat the chicken with the flour, cinnamon, salt . In the movie Chakall shows a very interesting way to do this with a freezer bag.
- Melt the butter with a tablespoon of olive oil in a pan and fry the chicken fillets for two minutes . Later, we will put them in the oven.
The chocolate-wine sauce
- Cut the onions and peppers finely.
- Add the onions and peppers with a little extra olive oil to the hot pan and cook a few minutes.
- Add the red wine and let it boil for a while.
- Then add successively the chicken broth, tomato paste , cocoa powder and sugar. Stir well.
- Then add the cream, the raisins and the almonds to it at the end. The sauce should not cook anymore now.
Baking in the oven
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Place the chicken , topped with the bulk of the sauce into an ovenproof dish and cook for 10 minutes in the oven.
- Put the chicken on plates, garnish with the remaining sauce and chopped cilantro and crushed hazelnut
Nutrition
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If you speak Dutch, you can find the Dutch version of this recipe on gerechtenweb.blog.
[…] Ceviche is on my to-do list for a long time already. Â One of my favourite cooks, Chakall, made a very good version of ceviche with mango. Â He is also the one that gave me the inspiration for the Mexican style chocolate chicken. […]