Azerbaijani Fisinjan

Name: Azerbaijani Fisinjan
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Azerbaijani
Ingredients: 1 duck, cut into pieces; 2 cups walnuts, ground; 1 cup pomegranate juice; 1 tbsp sugar

Fisincan/fee-sin-JAHN/

About this dish

Duck or chicken simmered in a rich walnut and pomegranate sauce.

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Ingredients

🦆1 duck, cut into pieces

🥜2 cups walnuts, ground

🍇1 cup pomegranate juice

🍬1 tbsp sugar

Method

Serves 2

Brown the duck pieces, then set aside.

Toast ground walnuts in a dry pan until fragrant.

Add pomegranate juice and sugar, and simmer into a thick sauce.

Return the duck to the sauce and simmer until tender.

Serve with rice.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Fisinjan is a festive Azerbaijani dish, sharing roots with Persian fesenjan, valued for its deep, tangy-sweet walnut sauce.

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