CARDAMOM HONEY CHICKEN

If you are starting to collect recipes to make festive plates, do not forget to include cardamom honey chicken in your list. This chicken recipe will make an excellent banquet element! Cardamom is highly used for pastry, cakes and some other sweet meals. Using this Indian spice to cook chicken especially when it is combined with honey seems a bit weird for those who did not yet explore the sweet and sour savor. However, cardamom honey chicken is very tasty. When it is ready to be served, its golden look mesmerizes your attention and you do not have time to doubt about its taste. You will live this particular culinary experience, once you will make in practice the following instructions. Remember by the way that the ingredients demanded to realize the following cardamom honey chicken recipe are measured for six servings. As usual, you can change the amount of each ingredient according to your need.

INGREDIENTS:
To realize cardamom honey chicken, four tablespoons of honey are necessary. Despite of the terrible disease that affects bees nowadays, you are advised to set contact with an apiarist from the nearest country side concerned with bee keeping, to have a full jar of high quality honey. Then, you will also need a half cup of cardamom pods. You can have them at Indian spice shops. Actually, you will need only a teaspoon of ground cardamom but it is better to have pods and prepare the spice on your own. Then, break up the pods and ground the seeds of cardamom with a mortar to get your teaspoon of grounded cardamom. Six chicken breasts come at the third position of needed ingredient for this recipe. Cut them into parts to quicken the cooking. Else, you will need two tablespoons of sherry wine, one teaspoon of peppercorn, two tablespoons of olive oil, one thinly sliced lemon, salt and pepper.

DIRECTION:
We are going to use an oven to make this cardamom honey chicken. So, firstly, preheat your oven to 390°F. Meanwhile, you are going to warm your honey in a small saucepan and add the sherry wine, the peppercorns and the cardamom.  Stir the marinade mixture during one minute. Now, take a large bowl to rub your chicken pieces with the cardamom marinade. Make sure that every piece of chicken is perfectly rubbed. Cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and reserve your marinated chicken in a cool store for thirty minutes or forty five. The resting time depends on you. After that resting time, you are going to take a large frying pan and heat olive oil. Dispose your chicken breasts on the pan and let the skin be side down. When the pieces of chicken are golden you can take them out of the pan. Then, prepare your roasting pan by starting to dispose the slice of lemons all through its base. Top the lemon bed with the chicken pieces, season with salt and pepper. Let the cardamom honey chicken bake for fifteen to twenty minutes.

DESCRIPTION:
Cardamom honey chicken is a chicken recipe highly suggested during festivities. A noble recipe, this cardamom honey chicken will make your banquet look shinier. For you to get a perfect version of this recipe, you are advised to get the ingredients at the best locations. In fact, the ingredients section of this recipe is furnished with advices that should guide you to select the best honey and the best cardamom pods. This section also shows you about cardamom grounding. Explanatory and friendly reading, the direction section of this recipe is meant to give full guidance to interested cookers.