This delicious Fairtrade-spiced recipe from Bart combines chicken, cashews and coconut with rice and a range of spices to make a warming, filling meal.
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Mozambican Chicken Pilaff
This recipe was shared with us by Bart. It is a Mozambican rice dish, simple to make and full of flavour it uses lots of Fairtrade spices to give it a unique, delicious taste. Don’t eat chicken? Replace it with a white fish or tofu.
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Serves: 2 to 4
Ingredients
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2 tbsp oil
- 2 onions, roughly chopped
- 500g boneless chicken thighs, cut into cubes
- 2 tsp Bart Fairtrade organic turmeric
- 1 tsp Bart Fairtrade organic ginger
- 1 Bart Fairtrade organic cinnamon stick
- 1 tsp Bart Fairtrade organic cardamom
- 6 Bart Fairtrade organic cloves
- 400g chopped tomatoes
- 250ml chicken stock
- 1 tsp Bart Garlic in Sunflower Oil
- 2 tsp caster sugar
- Pinch of Bart Fairtrade organic ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp Bart Fairtrade organic black peppercorns, roughly crushed
- Salt to taste
- 200g basmati rice, rinsed & soaked
- 200ml coconut milk
- 50g cashew nuts, roughly chopped
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Method
- Heat the oil in a large deep frying pan. Add the onions and cook gently until beginning to soften, but do not allow to brown. Add the chicken and stir-fry until coloured.
- Add the turmeric, ginger, cinnamon stick, cardamom pods and cloves and stir for a minute. Add the tomatoes and stock then stir in the garlic, pinch of cinnamon, sugar, black pepper and salt. Simmer gently for 15 minutes.
- Stir in the drained rice and coconut milk and cook on a low heat, stirring from time to time, for 10-15 minutes until the rice is cooked.
- Scatter over the cashew nuts and serve.