Chicken With Prunes in Red Wine Sauce from A Bird in the Hand by Diana Henry - Cooking by the Book

Ingredients

• 8 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs
• 2 large onions, halved
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• 1 ¼ cups red wine
• 16 mi-cuit prunes, or soft, good-quality prunes
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• ½ tablespoon creme de cassis (optional)
• Good handful of flat-leaf parsley leaves, finely chopped
• Salt flakes
• 2 tablespoons coarse bread crumbs (I prefer whole-grain bread here)
• 1 ½ tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons brandy or Armagnac