Chicken With Dried Fruit & Spinach In A Creamy Egg Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 whole chicken, cut into 8 pieces, remove skin if you wish
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, minced (or to taste)
• 1/2 cup flour (for dredging, you may need more or less)
• 1 cup dry wine
• 1/3 cup raisins, plumped in hot water or 1/3 cup broth
• 1/3 cup chopped dried apricot, plumped with the raisins (chop to the same size as the rasins)
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/2 lemon, juice of (or to taste)
• 1 (9 ounce) bag of prewashed baby spinach

Recipe

• 1 place oil in a large skillet and warm over medium heat.
• 2 add onions and saute until opaque.
• 3 add the garlic and saute while doing the next step, don't over brown garlic.
• 4 dredge chicken pieces in flour and add them to the pan.
• 5 brown chicken turning as needed.
• 6 pour wine over chicken and deglaze pan.
• 7 cover and simmer about 1/2 hour.
• 8 add drained rasins and apricots.
• 9 simmer on low heat until the chicken begins to pull away from the bone, about another 1/2 hour.
• 10 uncover and add the spinach, let wilt while stiring into the sauce.
• 11 in a small bowl beat egg yolks with lemon juice.
• 12 remove skillet from heat.
• 13 add the beaten egg yolk and stir into the sauce until it forms a creamy consistencey (don't cream the spinach, just stir everything together), coating chicken pieces with sauce.
• 14 serve hot and enjoy!