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Fesenjan Chicken and Carrot Salad
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Meredith and I were having my uncle over for dinner and we wanted to make something different so we decided on a Persian dish called Fesenjan. It is a pomegranate chicken with walnuts. The key ingredients are toasted walnuts and pomegranate molasses. You can make the latter by cooking down pomegranate juice or you can buy it (which we did). The walnuts get toasted and then ground.
The recipe is from Minimalist Baker (_local_[@rev]). It is actually pretty easy. We essentially stayed true to the recipe except we 1.5x it. We did use brown rice but also first toasted it a bit to bring out extra flavor (and we made extra for another dish)
It came out extremely good though not very pretty. It turns black while cooking! Also, I think it was a bit wet. We would certainly make thisagain; maybe as a side with chickpeas and some whole walnuts.
BUT... there is one downside. It ends up being a lot of points. See the nutritional information below. The only thing is, I do not know about themolasses. The numbers on the nutrition label for each constituentsource of calories does not meet the number of calories. And, there is little agreement amongst the internet. A few sites say about 40 cal/Tbsp while a lot of others say 40cal/tsp. The calories on the bottle we bought say 120cal/Tbsp (which == 40 cal/tsp). So, I think I will go with that. 6 Tbsp = 18 points. However, 8 ounces of pomegranate juice is 136 calories so this still may be way off.
We also made the carrot salad[@rev]from 2014-10-27[@rev]. It was good though not as good as I remembered.
Fesenjan [Persian Pomegranate Chicken] (from Minimalist Baker)
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Included is the outline I made for timing. I was about 20 minutes off of it though.
Again, see note above about the pomegranatemolasses. And note that this includes rice.
| Item | x | Cal | Fat | Carbs | protein | fiber | per | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pom Syrup* | 4 | 120 | 0.00 | 36.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.91 | 15.63 |
| Walnuts | 1.5 | 523 | 52.00 | 11.00 | 12.00 | 5.00 | 15.26 | 22.89 |
| 1 cup rice | 1 | 684 | 5.00 | 143.00 | 15.00 | 6.00 | 17.70 | 17.70 |
| Chciken (oz) | 16 | 35 | 1.39 | 0.00 | 5.32 | 0.00 | 0.84 | 13.50 |
| Honey | 2 | 64 | 0.00 | 17.00 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 1.85 | 3.71 |
| Oil | 3 | 120 | 14.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.60 | 10.80 |
| Total | 2996.50 | 147.24 | 337.50 | 118.32 | 13.50 | 84.24 | ||
| Per Serving | 4 | 749.13 | 36.81 | 84.38 | 29.58 | 3.38 | 21.06 |
Original WP Post ID: 9235
Original WP Pub Date: 2014-11-13_200008