Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken tagine. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken tagine is a traditional Moroccan dish of chicken pieces braised with spices, garlic, onion, olives, and preserved lemons. It's company-worthy yet easy to throw together. Chicken seasoned with a spice blend including cinnamon and cumin is simmered with apricots and raisins in the sweet Moroccan chicken tagine.
Chicken tagine is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Chicken tagine is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken tagine using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken tagine:
- Take 1 kg chicken (breast will work but thighs or 1 chicken quarter per person is best.)
- Make ready 1 vegetable stock
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 150 g dried apricots
- Make ready 2 tbsp oil
- Prepare 4 garlic cloves, crushed
- Get 2 onions, roughly chopped
- Get 2 cinnamon sticks
- Prepare 3 tsp ground cumin
- Get 1 tbsp coriander seeds, crushed
- Take 6 cardamon pods, crushed
- Prepare 1 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready salt and pepper to season
- Take 1 glass white wine
- Take 125 g fruit chutney
Add plums, olives and lemon, pressing into liquid around chicken. In a large fry pan over medium-high heat, warm the oil. Transfer the chicken thighs to a slow cooker. Heat the remaining olive oil in a large sauté pan set over medium heat, and sear the chicken in batches, starting skin-side down, until the thighs are browned.
Steps 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.
Remove the chicken to a large Dutch. Add chicken, and brown on all sides. Add onions to skillet, and cook over. Bring the taste of North Africa to your kitchen with one of our chicken tagine recipes. Serve with bread, couscous or tabbouleh.
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