Moroccan Chicken Tagine
Created by ImPat on May 25, 2019
- Servings: 6
- Prep Time: 35m
- Cook Time: 375m
- Recipe #32280
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour (plain, 80 g)
- Salt. to taste
- Pepper to taste
- 2 kilograms chicken breasts (bone in and skin on, 4 chicken breasts specified)
- 600 grams chicken thighs (cutlets, bone in and skin on, 4 cutlets specified)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 onions, large and finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons ginger root, finely grated
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoons ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon ground coriander
- 2 cinnamon quills
- 1 cup chicken stock (250 mls)
- 200 grams pitted green olives ( sicilian olives, and halved, 1 cup)
- 2 lemon wedges (preserved lemon wedges chopped to serve)
- FOR HERBED COUSCOUS
- 372 grams dry couscous (dry, 2 cups)
- 2 tablespoons parsley, fresh and finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons coriander, fresh and finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons peppermint, fresh and finely chopped
- Lemon rind (1/4 preserved lemon, rind removed and finely chopped)
- 2 pomegranate (deseeded)
How to Make
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Step 1: Place flour in a large bowl and sason and working with one piece at a time, add chicken to flour and toss until well to coated and then shake off excess flour, reserving remainder.
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Step 2: Heat oil in a large frying pan and add chicken in two batches, skin-side down first and cook for about 2 to 3 minutes each side, or until browned and then transfer chicken to a 5 to 6-litre slow cooker along with reserved flour.
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Step 3: Add onions, garlic and ginger to same frying pan and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and then add paprika, cumin and coriander and cook, stirring, for 1 minute and then add to cooker with cinnamon quills and stock and cover with lid.
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Step 4: Cook for about 6 hours on low, or about 4 hours on high, or until chicken pieces are tender and then stir in Sicilian olives.
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Step 5: To make the herbed couscous, cook couscous according to package directions and stir in herbs, preserved lemon and pomegranate seeds and season to taste.
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Step 6: Serve on herbed couscous and top with chopped lemon.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (494.2 g)
- Calories 728.5
- Total Fat - 23.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.7 g
- Cholesterol - 155.5 mg
- Sodium - 213.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 82.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 9.3 g
- Sugars - 14.8 g
- Protein - 49.3 g
- Calcium - 171.7 mg
- Iron - 5.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 43.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.4 mg