Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chicken tagine. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken tagine is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken tagine is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To the sauce, add the lemon, olives, parsley, and cilantro and then return the chicken to the pot. Apricots, ginger, cinnamon, and cumin give this slow cooked chicken and vegetable dinner a savory and sweet Moroccan flavor. Chicken seasoned with a spice blend including cinnamon and cumin is simmered with apricots and raisins in the sweet Moroccan chicken tagine.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chicken tagine using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken tagine:
- Prepare 1 kg chicken (breast will work but thighs or 1 chicken quarter per person is best.)
- Get 1 vegetable stock
- Prepare 1 bay leaf
- Get 150 g dried apricots
- Get 2 tbsp oil
- Take 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- Get 2 onions, roughly chopped
- Prepare 2 cinnamon sticks
- Prepare 3 tsp ground cumin
- Make ready 1 tbsp coriander seeds, crushed
- Take 6 cardamon pods, crushed
- Get 1 tsp ground ginger
- Prepare salt and pepper to season
- Take 1 glass white wine
- Take 125 g fruit chutney
Coat the chicken thighs evenly with the flour mixture, shaking off the excess; reserve the remaining flour mixture. In a large fry pan over medium-high heat, warm the oil. Remove the chicken to a large Dutch oven or tagine pot. Remove all but two tablespoons of the fat in pan, then return it to the heat, and brown the cauliflower and add to the chicken.
Instructions to make Chicken tagine:
- Place the dried apricots in a bowl and cover them with boiling water, leaving them to soak for at least one hour.
- Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a casserole dish over a high heat and brown the chicken. (if using breast slice into medium chunks before browning). Once browned transfer the meat to a plate for later.
- Heat the remaining oil in the casserole dish over a medium heat. Add the garlic, onions, and carrots. Cook for about 3-5 minutes until softened.
- Add all of the spices (bay leaf, cinnamon, coriander seeds, cardamon pods, cumin and ginger) and season with salt and pepper. Fry for a few more minutes.
- Return the meat to the casserole dish with all the vegetables. Add the wine, chutney, water from the apricots and enough vegetable stock to cover the meat and vegetables. keep on the heat and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally to deglaze.
- Leave to simmer on the hob for for about 1 hour stirring occasionally until the liquid has reduced by half.
- Add the apricots and cook for a further half an hour.
- The meat and vegetables should be soft and tender at this point.
- Serve with rice, couscous or good chunky bread.
Reduce heat below the pan, and add the onion, garlic, ginger and saffron. Rinse the preserved lemons, and remove the pulp. The combination of spices and vegetable flavors are amazing. This can also be made in a Dutch oven. A nice ethnic alternative to chicken stew.
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