Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, moroccan chicken and cous cous. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook moroccan chicken and cous cous using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous:
- Make ready Aubergine Paste (this can be made in advance and chilled)
- Make ready 1 Aubergine
- Take 4 clove of garlic, crushed
- Take 1 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 tbsp turmeric
- Prepare 1 salt and pepper for seasoning
- Get Main dish
- Get 1 Aubergine paste (see above)
- Take 2 chicken drumsticks
- Prepare 2 chicken thighes
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil, 1 in a heat proof pot and the other in a food bag.
- Get 400 grams tinned chopped tomatoes
- Take 1 pepper, sliced
- Prepare 125 grams cous cous
- Get 500 ml chicken stock
- Take Main dish (Spices)
- Prepare 1 whole chilli pepper
- Prepare 1/2 grams cinnamon shard
- Make ready 1 tsp paprika
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin
You can add other ingredients such as green olives or dried apricots to this recipe. A flavorful chicken stew that uses exotic spices and nice vegetables served over whole-grain couscous. Reviews for: Photos of Moroccan Chicken and Whole Grain Couscous. Meal prep made easy with this completely delicious Moroccan chicken couscous salad recipe.
Steps to make Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous:
- For the paste : pre-heat the oven to 190°C / 170°C fan. Pierce the outer skin of the aubergine, place in the oven and bake for 40-50mins. Once removed from the oven, open up and scoop out the insides and mush up. Add the rest of the paste ingredients and mix together. You can store this in the fridge and use later or use straight away.
- Place the chicken in the food bag, add some salt and pepper, seal the bag and toss the chicken to cover in the oil.
- Heat the oil in the pot. Add the spices for 20seconds.
- Add the chicken and lightly brown. Once browned remove.
- Add the pepper and cook for 1min.
- Add the paste and cook for 1min.
- Add the tomatoes and cook for 2mins.
- Add the stock, scraping the bottom of the pot to deglaze.
- Place the chicken on top, skin down. Place the lid on the pot and cook on a low to medium heat for 35-40mins.
- Once the chicken is cooked, remove the chicken to rest and ladle out 200ml of the stock in to a bowl or jug.
- Add the cous cous to the separated stock, and leave to soak, fluffing up and separating with a fork after a couple mins.
- Turn the heat up on the pot with remaining stock to a high setting and reduce for 5mins.
- serve
Make a big batch and feast all week long. Spoon chicken, vegetables, and broth on top. Add the chicken to the griddle. Chicken tagine is a traditional Moroccan dish of chicken pieces braised with spices, garlic, onion, olives, and preserved lemons. Really delicious and great use of chicken thighs.
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