Dinner Tonight: Chicken with Pumpkin Seed Sauce

Name: Dinner Tonight: Chicken with Pumpkin Seed Sauce
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 chicken breasts or legs, bone-in; 591 milliliters chicken stock; 1 clove garlic, peeled; 1 habanero chile, seeded; 1 smalls onion, cut in half; 79 milliliters pistachios, shelled and chopped; 59 milliliters hulled pumpkin seeds; 2 servings Salt; 1 Tbsps sesame seeds; 57 grams tomatillos, husked

Dinner Tonight: Chicken with Pumpkin Seed Sauce is a gluten free, dairy free, and primal main course. This recipe serves 2. One serving contains 432 calories, 39g of protein, and 21g of fat. This recipe covers 27% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. If you have tomatillos, sesame seeds, habanero chile, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the pistachios you could follow this main course with the Blackberry Cloud Cake with Pistachios as a dessert.

Instructions

Set the pumpkin seeds in a large skillet over medium. Toast for about 3, shaking the pan from time to time. They should be very fragrant.

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Pumpkin Seeds

Toast

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Frying Pan

Remove.

Add the sesame seeds to the now empty skillet and toast for about 4 minutes, shaking the pan from time to time, again.

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Sesame Seeds

Toast

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Frying Pan

Remove. If either looks like it is going to turn black then immediately remove.

Toss the pumpkin and sesame seeds in a food processor and blend until they become a fine dust. Set aside.

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Sesame Seeds

Pumpkin

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Food Processor

Remove the skin from the chicken pieces. Season with salt and set in a large pot.

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Chicken Pieces

Salt

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Pot

Pour in the chicken stock and bring to a simmer. Cook for 20 minutes.

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Chicken Stock

Remove the chicken.

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Whole Chicken

Add the onion, garlic, habanero, tomatillos, and half of the pistachios. Cook at a simmer for 10 minutes. Toss out the habanero.

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Pistachio Nuts

Tomatillos

Habanero Chili

Garlic

Onion

Using a slotted spoon, remove the vegetables and toss them in a blender. Keep the stock.

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Vegetable

Stock

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Slotted Spoon

Blender

Add about 1 cup of the stock and blend until very smooth.

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Stock

Add more stock if it's too dry.

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Stock

Pour the sauce into a large skillet, turn the heat to medium-low, and slowly whisk in the ground pumpkin and sesame seeds. It should thicken the sauce up, but if it gets too dry add some more of the stock.

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Sesame Seeds

Pumpkin

Sauce