How to make Lavangi with chicken and walnuts
This oven-baked Lavangi with chicken and walnut is sure to be your next favorite dish, a tender buttery chicken dish with a sour-sweet flavor.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of halve walnut
- One large onion
- 4 tablespoons of pomegranate molasses
- 3 lb chicken I used a whole chicken and removed all fat and skin, cut it into medium-sized bone-in pieces.
- Salt and pepper to taste. I used 3 teaspoons of salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 °F.
- Remove chicken skin and fat and cut it into medium-sized bone-in pieces and place it into a bowl.
- Measure other ingredients. Peel the onion and chop it into chunks.
- Using a food processor, grind the walnut until smooth paste forms. Then, add onion chunks and process them with walnut paste until smooth consistency forms.
- Add walnut onion paste, pomegranate molasses, salt, and pepper to the chicken pieces.
- Taste the pomegranate molasses to adjust the sweet-sour flavor to your taste. Add honey or sugar if needed. I like this dish sour.
- Using your hand, mix all the ingredients well. You may cover the bowl with a plastic warp and leave it in the fridge for two hours to build more flavor before baking. (optional)
- Otherwise, place it in a cast iron skillet, cover it with aluminum foil, and bake it for 90 minutes on the middle oven rack. Halfway through baking, move the chicken around, and if the dish looks watery, you may remove the foil for the other half-time of baking.
- Serve it with your favorite side dishes, and enjoy!
Notes
- This dish tends to be dark in color and delicious. The pomegranate molasses and cast iron skillet make this dish dark.
- Adjust for a cooking time depending on the type of cookware you use!
- Feel free to adjust the amount of walnuts and other ingredients. You will end up with a delicious dish no Mather what.
- Bone-in chicken pieces make the dish extra delicious and take longer to bake. Adjust the time if you only using chicken breast or chicken with no bone.
- I used a 10-inch cast-iron skillet.
- This dish is also called Lavangi.
- And the walnut paste can be stuffed inside a whole chicken cavity as another variation to this recipe with exact same ingredients.
Note: The provided nutrition information is an estimate for the entire recipe, the calorie accuracy nutritional facts, unit and portion conversion are calculated by a third party app. and are not guaranteed.