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African Chicken



This was the most amazing Chicken!! I actually watched an episode of Diners, Drive ins, and Dives and got the recipe from there. Of course, I didn't have as much cumin as I needed, so I changed and tweaked the recipe and although I never made the original recipe the one I made was fabulous. I use so much Cumin, I need to start buying it in one of those huge containers they sell at BJ's. I thought I had extra down stairs but I didn't. UGH. Anyway here is how I made it.

I used 6 thighs and 4 drumsticks
I made a paste which was:
Cumin about a tablespoon
Oregano about 2 tablespoons
Pepper teaspoon
Salt 2 teaspoons
Garlic 1 teaspoon minced
Chili powder 1 tablespoon
Corriander powder 1 tablespoon

mix that together and then add olive oil to make a paste. I put the chicken in 2 aluminum pans and rubbed equal parts of the paste on each piece of chicken until it was gone.

I let marinate for an hour.

I browned each piece of chicken in a frying pan and then put the chicken back into the pan it was marinating in. I squeezed 2 oranges and one lemon into the pan and de-glazed the pan with about 2 cups of water. I then took the water with orange and lemon juice and equally separated it into the 2 pans of chicken. It was about enough to cover each bottom of the pan. I also added the rinds each pan got 2 halves of orange and 1 half of lemon.

I put that into a 500 degree preheated oven uncovered and baked for 1 hour.
Thats it! The flavor was bursting and perfect! There was enough water at the bottom it didn't evaporate and was very flavorful!

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