25-Minute Skillet Chicken w/ Carrots & Leeks

Have you ever cooked with pickling spice? I know it seems a tad bizarre, but it's actually packed with tons of those "simmered all day" flavors that you find in your favorite roasts and stews: cinnamon, allspice, mustard seed, coriander, bay leaves, ginger, chilies, cloves, black pepper, mace, cardamom -- the whole enchilada. (Speaking of which, I also use it in my enchilada sauce.) Give it a blitz in your spice grinder -- or some good muscle with a mortar and pestle -- and it perks up chicken like whoa. Give it a shot.

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