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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken tagine with honeynut squash using 20 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash:
- Get 2 Tbsp ras el hanout (recipe in method)
- Take 2.5 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Take 2 Tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 lb chicken thighs, cut into chunks
- Prepare 1 onion, sliced
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic smashed
- Prepare 2 inch knob ginger, grated
- Take 3/4 cup dried apricots, quartered
- Get 1 (14 oz) can diced tomatoes
- Prepare 2 cups hot water
- Take 1 Bou chicken bouillon cube
- Make ready 1 cup diced squash
- Get 1 cup pitted green olives, halved
- Make ready 2 Tbsp ghee or oil
- Prepare 8 oz frozen spinach, thawed
- Prepare 1 cup parked couscous
- Get 1 cup cilantro, chopped
- Take 1 lemon
- Take 1/4 cup pistachios, chopped
Using a recipe from the Blue Apron Meal Delivery service, I cook one of Blue Apron's Fall recipes: Orange Chicken with Honeynut Squash & Rice for dinner. Roasted Stuffed Honeynut Squash, Vegan & Gluten-Free - The Colorful Kitchen. After such a hot summer, I'm so excited that the weather has finally cooled down! It actually feels like fall (although our weather here in the Northeast is supposed to get hot again…wah!), and I'm already in.
Steps to make Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash:
- If you're using a traditional tagine, begin by preheating the oven with tagine inside at 325F. If you don't have a tagine, you can do this recipe on the stove top in a Dutch oven and transfer to the oven later on.
- Combine the olive oil, ras el hanout, salt, and pepper in a small bowl.
- Ras el hanout: 12 green cardamom pods. 4 black cardamom pods. 4 tsp cumin seeds. 4 tsp coriander seeds. 2 tsp anise seeds. 1/2 tsp allspice berries. 1/4 tsp black peppercorns. 4 tsp ground ginger. 2 tsp nutmeg. 2 tsp Aleppo pepper. 2 tsp cinnamon. Grind all in spice mill. If you want to use a premixed Moroccan spice blend that's fine too.
- Add half the spice paste to the chicken and mix.
- Add the ginger to remaining spice mix.
- Dissolve the bouillon cube in 2 cups of hot water.
- Combine the onion and garlic in a bowl.
- Combine the apricot and tomato in a bowl
- Combine the olives and squash in a bowl.
- Heat the ghee in a skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add the onion and garlic and brown.
- Add the remaining spice mix and cook until fragrant.
- Add the onion mixture to the tagine
- Deglaze the skillet with the tomatoes, apricots and 1/2 cup of the stock.
- Transfer the tomatoes to the tagine.
- Nestle the chicken into the tagine
- Cover with the lid and bake for 45 min.
- Add the squash and the olives and continue baking for another 30-45 min.
- Meanwhile, combine the cilantro, the zest of the lemon, the juice of the lemon, and the pistachios.
- Add the remaining 1.5 cups stock to a small pot. Bring to a boil and add the couscous. Cook on low, covered for 10 min followed by removing from heat and letting sit to steam.
- When the squash is tender, add the spinach over top and continue cooking for 10 min.
- Remove the tagine from the oven and top with the cilantro mixture.
- Serve in deep bowls with the couscous and lots of the tagine.
Taste and season with salt and pepper. Swoosh onto a plate and add the squash on top. Garnish with the shallots and honeyed walnuts. Honeynut squash is a winter squash cultivar bred from butternut and buttercup squash. It has a similar shape and flavor to butternut squash but averages about half the size and is significantly.
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