Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, moroccan chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This recipe is thick with 'em, and your taste buds will be thick with pleasure from Moroccan Chicken. This exotic tasting dish is a definite crowd pleaser! Moroccan chicken is essentially stewed or braised chicken with deep, lovely flavors from a special Moroccan spice rub (which I tell you all about in a second), along with aromatics, fresh lemons, and green olives.
Moroccan Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Moroccan Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have moroccan chicken using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Moroccan Chicken:
- Prepare 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp chili powder
- Take 1 tbsp ground ginger
- Take 1 tbsp paprika
- Get 1 tsp ground black pepper
- Take 1 tbsp turmeric
- Make ready 2 lb chicken breasts
- Make ready 1 lb red or white onions
- Make ready 75 ml olive oil
- Make ready 2 clove garlic
- Prepare 6 oz ready to eat dried apricots or dates
- Get 2 oz raisins or sultanas
- Get 2 can 400 g chopped tomatoes
- Take 1/2 pints chicken stock
- Make ready 1 tbsp honey
- Prepare 2 oz sliced almonds
- Prepare coriander /cilantro (chopped)
Heat oils in a cast iron skillet until they begin to smoke. Chicken thighs, rubbed in more spices than you would ever think you could use at once, cooked until tender with olives and lemons. This is a slow cooker riff off our popular tagine recipe. Boneless skinless chicken thighs are sprinkled with paprika, ginger, cumin, turmeric, coriander, and more, placed on a bed of.
Steps to make Moroccan Chicken:
- Cut chicken into 1 inch cubes and place In a bowl, heat oven to 170C
- Place spices into a bowl and mix well (you can also do this in a screw top jar)
- Add spices to chicken and stir to coat evenly
- In a casserole heat 1 tablespoon oil, fry 1/4 of the chicken,stirring until sealed, remove from pan and repeat with remaining chicken (in batches)
- Grate or finely slice the onions, finely chop or puree the garlic, cut apricots / dates in half.
- Lower heat under the pan, add last tablespoon oil, fry onions until transparent, add garlic, don't allow to brown
- Place chicken in pan and add tomatoes, fruit, honey and stock. Stir, bring to the boil and put lid on. If using dates, remove stones.
- Place in oven and cook for approx 1 1/2 hours, stir a couple of times during cooking. Meanwhile lightly toast the almonds. Ensure chicken is cooked through.
- Remove from oven, sprinkle with coriander and almonds.
- Serve with couscous, pilaf rice, or as we prefer, with foccacia (see other recipe) or other crusty bread to soak up the sauce.
- Experiment with dried fruit, eg. use mix of dates and apricots.
- You can substitute lamb for chicken (alter stock too!) may take slightly longer in oven.
This Moroccan chicken is an easy and incredibly flavorful way to prepare boneless skinless chicken breasts. I can't claim it's one hundred percent authentic, but the spices make it taste decidedly Moroccan, and it also goes wonderfully with couscous. Rinse the preserved lemons, and remove the pulp. Grilled Moroccan Chicken has become one of my go-to chicken recipes! It's bursting with so many bright, aromatic flavors and it's one of the tastiest chicken recipes you'll have ever tried!
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