During her first meeting with Cinna, her stylist, Katniss has a meal of chicken in orange sauce with peas and onions. As she watched this perfect plate of food rise from within the table at the push of a button, Her life had been so hard all her life and with the slightest effort, Capitol residents had a first class meal brought before them. She imagined herself trying to recreate this meal back in District 12. Katniss realizes that after a hard day of hunting. gathering and trading, her version would still be a lesser version of Cinna's lunch. With that realization, Katniss's hate for the Capitol grows. Though the book does not specify what type of orange sauce is used, I'd like to think it was a decadent buerre blanc usually used with fish and seafood.
Ingredients:1 lb boneless chicken thighs, cubed
2 oranges
1/2 cup white wine
2 teaspoons shallots, minced
1 stick unsalted butter
1 cup couscous
2 cups frozen peas
1/2 cup frozen pearl onions
Salt & Pepper
Directions:
Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Heat a pan over high heat and brown the chicken pieces and remove from pan.
Saute shallots in the chicken drippings for a minute. Add the juice of 1 1/2 oranges (save last half for orange segments) and white wine to the pan. Lower heat to medium and reduce the liquid to half its original volume. The sauce should be syrupy by this point.
Lower the heat of the pan to low and slowly whisk in little pieces of the butter. Stir continuously to avoid the sauce breaking and do not let it boil. The result should be a smooth pale orange sauce that can easily coat the back of a spoon. Add the chicken back with the remaining orange segments and allow the chicken to finish cooking over low heat.
Using the water-couscous ratio reccommended on your package, allow the couscous to cook and fluff with a fork. Place the peas and onions in another pan and let them heat up with a dab of butter. Season with salt and pepper. Serve chicken over a bed of couscous with the peas and onions as a side.
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