Chicken with Tomatoes and Prunes

Ingredients

• Salt

  Table

  1 ¾ tsp or 11g

• Roma tomatoes

  Red, ripe, raw. Also called Italian or plum tomato

  3 tomato or 186g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  2 tsp or 8g

• Chicken, meat and skin and giblets and neck

  Broilers or fryers, raw

  1 chicken or 1.05kg

• Red wine vinegar

  2 tbsp or 30g

• Cinnamon

  Spices, ground

  1 tbsp or 8g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  ¼ tsp or 0.5g

• Butter

  Unsalted

  2 ½ tbsp or 36g

• White wine

  Alcoholic beverage, table

  8 fl oz or 235g

• Plums

  Dried (prunes), uncooked

  16 prune, pitted or 152g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  ½ cup or 118g

Directions

1. Coarsely chop tomatoes, discarding seeds. Cut chicken into (8) pieces.
2. Pat chicken dry and sprinkle with pepper and 1 teaspoon salt. Heat butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet or a wide heavy pot over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then brown chicken in 2 batches, turning with tongs, about 5 minutes per batch. Transfer chicken as browned to a plate.
3. Return chicken, skin sides up, to skillet along with any juices accumulated on plate. Add wine and boil until reduced by half, about 4 minutes. Add water, tomatoes, cinnamon stick, remaining 3/4 teaspoon salt, and a large pinch of pepper and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to moderately low and cover skillet, then simmer 20 minutes.
4. Stir in prunes, vinegar, and sugar and simmer, covered, until chicken is cooked through, about 10 minutes. Transfer chicken with tongs to a shallow serving dish and keep warm, covered with foil. Boil pan juices, stirring occasionally, until thickened and reduced to about 1 1/2 cups, 8 to 10 minutes. Discard cinnamon stick and spoon sauce over chicken.

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