Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, moroccan chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Moroccan Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Moroccan Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have moroccan chicken using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Moroccan Chicken:
- Take 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp chili powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp ground ginger
- Get 1 tbsp paprika
- Get 1 tsp ground black pepper
- Prepare 1 tbsp turmeric
- Take 2 lb chicken breasts
- Prepare 1 lb red or white onions
- Take 75 ml olive oil
- Get 2 clove garlic
- Get 6 oz ready to eat dried apricots or dates
- Take 2 oz raisins or sultanas
- Make ready 2 can 400 g chopped tomatoes
- Prepare 1/2 pints chicken stock
- Take 1 tbsp honey
- Take 2 oz sliced almonds
- Prepare coriander /cilantro (chopped)
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.
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