Chicken Marbella Recipe

Chicken marbella is an iconic chicken dish from the silver palate cookbook by sheila lukins and julee rosso, first published in 1982. The book is famous for many innovative dinner party recipes with this dish a stand-out from that era. The dish fell out of favor but in recent times is making something of a comeback which is no surprise as it is not only super-easy to make, it is delicious. The dish has a careful balance of sweetness (from the sugar and prunes) with the acidity of the vinegar and saltiness of the olives and capers which when served with either rice, pasta or even mashed potatoes to soak up the sauce is so good. Nothing could be simpler to prepare, and a long marinate overnight (you can even get away with marinating in the morning and cooking that night but if you can leave it longer, do) all that is then left is to pop it in the oven to bake. No wonder this classic dish is making a comeback.