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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Chinese and Mongolian >> Chinese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Heat half the butter in a large frying pan. | 2. Add the sliced onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, Remove to plate. | 3. Heat remaining butter in the pan and add the chicken. | 4. Cook, turning occasionally, until brown all over and half cooked or more. Remove to plate. | 5. Add the dried cranberries & chopped dates to the pan and sprinkle with the icing sugar. | 6. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute. | 7. Return onion and browned chicken to the pan. | 8. Add drained rice, water as needed, I'd use just under 2 cups, use the amount you would usually to cook rice. Add the orange zest, coarsely grated carrot, saffron, cumin, cinnamon, cracked cardamom pods, sea salt, to taste and stir to combine. | 9. Increase heat to high to bring to the boil. | 10. Reduce heat to low and cook, covered, for 15-20 minutes or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed. | 11. Remove from heat and set aside, covered, for 5 minutes to rest. | 12. Use a fork to fluff the rice. | 13. Add half of the toasted almonds and pistachios and stir through the rice. | 14. Transfer to a serving platter. | 15. Sprinkle with remaining pistachios, almonds, and rose water if using. | 16. Arrange lime wedges around dish. | 17. Serve immediately. | 18. Avoid actually eating the cardamom pods. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	4	tablespoons		342.0	15.714	10.686	28.8
cooking onion	1		sliced	-	-	-	-
chicken drumstick	4			7972.8	14.3148	173.5896	801.4476
cranberry	1/8	cup	dried	6.325	1.6459	0.0632	0.0179
date	1/8	cup	chopped	51.8175	13.7868	0.4502	0.0717
icing sugar	1 1/2	1/2		-	-	-	-
basmati rice	1	cup	rinsed soaked drained	-	-	-	-
water				0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
carrot	1		grated	25.01	5.8438	0.5673	0.1464
orange	1/4 - 1/2			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
saffron	1/2	teaspoon		1.085	0.2288	0.04	0.0205
cumin	1/4	teaspoon		1.9688	0.2323	0.0935	0.1169
cinnamon	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cardamom pod	3		cracked	-	-	-	-
sea salt				-	-	-	-
almond	1/4	cup	slivered toasted	481.78	0.0	0.0	54.5
pistachio	1/8	cup	chopped	86.1	4.1774	3.0996	6.9679
rose water	1 1/2	1/2		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
lime wedge				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.