Cinnamon Chicken
Traditional dish with breasts, ~3 tablespoons olive oil, onion.

- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- advanced
Ingredients
- 2–3 chicken breasts
- to taste ~3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 small onion
- 1 can tomatoes
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- ¼–½ peach
- 1 splash vinegar
- to taste enough pasta for 4 servings
Steps
- Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan.
- Lightly brown the chicken breasts in the oil—do not cook them through.
- Add the onion.
- Fry for a couple of minutes.
- Add the peach (if using peach).
- Fry for another minute.
- Cut the tomatoes in half.
- Add the tomatoes.
- Add everything else.
- Simmer, covered, for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Remove the lid.
- Let it simmer for about 15 more minutes.
- In the meantime, cook the pasta according to the directions on the package.
- Remove the cinnamon sticks from the sauce.
- Serve over hot pasta with freshly-grated Parmesan and garlic bread.
Adapted from “Cinnamon Chicken”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.