Pomegranate Chicken With Preserved Lemon And Almond Rice Pilaf

With fresh pomegranate season almost over, I picked up a pomegranate and a bottle of pomegranate molasses at Dean & Deluca and made a Middle Eastern-inspired, exotic and easy chicken and rice dish — Pomegranate Chicken and Preserved Lemon and Almond Rice Pilaf.Several simple ingredients — pomegranate molasses and seeds, preserved lemons, toasted almonds, cinnamon,cumin, pepper, clove, coriander, ginger, chicken and rice — brought together in a way that is unusual for the American palate and uses relatively basic cooking techniques. The outcome is a meal that is tantalizing to the tongue. In my husband's words, this dish is simply "luscious".