This is a variant on a dish that is actually called Chicken Marbella, made famous by a 1970s NewYork food shop called The Silver Palate. I renamed it because there was a time, when I lived in North London in Hampstead Garden Suburb, that you could not go to a dinner party without it being served.

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Chicken recipe

Shabbat recipe

Ingredients

Name: Hampstead Garden Suburb Chicken
Ingredients: 1 chicken, jointed into 8 pieces, or 8 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs 2 red onions, sliced into rings 1 lemon, sliced into thin rings 100g capers (the kind that come in brine), drained 20 pitted prunes 150g pitted green olives, with 2 tbsp their brine 30ml red wine vinegar 30ml olive oil 60ml white wine 1 tbsp coriander seeds, crushed in a pestle and mortar 6 garlic cloves, crushed 2 bay leaves 1 tbsp dried oregano 1 cinnamon stick, broken into 3 pieces 60g soft light brown sugar A small handful each of chopped flat-leaf parsley and coriander

1 chicken, jointed into 8 pieces, or 8 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs

2 red onions, sliced into rings

1 lemon, sliced into thin rings

100g capers (the kind that come in brine), drained

20 pitted prunes

150g pitted green olives, with 2 tbsp their brine

30ml red wine vinegar

30ml olive oil

60ml white wine

1 tbsp coriander seeds, crushed in a pestle and mortar

6 garlic cloves, crushed

2 bay leaves

1 tbsp dried oregano

1 cinnamon stick, broken into 3 pieces

60g soft light brown sugar

A small handful each of chopped flat-leaf parsley and coriander