Southwestern Recipes
Orange-Pineapple Chicken
(Pollo con Jugo de Naranja)
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 (3 to 3 1/2 pound) broiler-fryer chicken, cut up
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup orange juice
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/4 cup dark rum
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, undrained
- 1/4 cup toasted slivered almonds
Instructions
- Mix flour, salt and pepper. Coat chicken with flour mixture.
- Heat oil in 12 inch skillet until hot. Cook chicken over medium heat until brown on all sides, about 15 minutes.
- Place chicken in ungreased 13 x 9 inch baking dish.
- Mix remaining ingredients except almonds; pour over chicken.
- Bake uncovered at 350 degrees F, spooning juices over chicken occasionally, until thickest pieces of chicken are done — 40 to 50 minutes.
- Sprinkle with almonds.