The Best Chicken Tagine
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The Best Chicken Tagine
This uncomplicated chicken tagine is keen made a solar daytime earlier together with left together with hence the flavours tin strength out infuse – a one-pot wonder!
Serves 4
Prep time: twenty minutes (plus marinating & soaking time)
Cooking time: forty minutes
Ingredients
8-10 chicken thighs, skinned, boned & cutting into bite-sized pieces
2tsp paprika
1tsp dry reason ginger
1tsp dry reason cumin
1tsp dry reason turmeric
½ tsp dry reason cinnamon
50g raisins
100g dried apricots, sliced
500ml chicken stock, hot
1tbsp olive oil
2 large onions, finely sliced
6 garlic cloves, peeled & finely chopped
Pinch of saffron, soaked inwards a splash of hot water
2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes
1tbsp tomato plant puree
1tbsp honey
To serve
50g flaked almonds, toasted
Handful of fresh coriander, finely chopped
250g couscous
Small handful of fresh mint, chopped
1 lemon, zest & juice
Preparation method
- Place all the spices inwards a large bowl, add together the chicken together with toss until the chicken is fully covered. Cover the bowl amongst cling cinema together with chill inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree an hour, or overnight.
- In or together with hence other bowl, add together the raisins, apricots together with pour over 200ml of the hot stock. Allow to soak for at to the lowest degree an hour, or overnight.
- Heat the crude oil inwards a large frying pan over a high heat, add together the chicken inwards two batches. Brown the chicken together with take amongst a slotted spoon onto kitchen newspaper together with laid aside.
- In the remaining oil, nipper the onions over a medium oestrus for v minutes until soft, stir through the garlic for the in conclusion minute. Now add together the saffron amongst the water, tomatoes, tomato plant puree, honey, fruit amongst liquid together with the remaining 300ml of chicken stock. Bring the pan to a simmer, gear upward for ten minutes together with flavor to taste.
- Now add together the browned chicken together with stir through. Cover partially together with simmer for twenty minutes, stir occasionally until the chicken is cooked together with the sauce has thickened.
- Meanwhile, seat the couscous inwards a large bowl together with encompass amongst 250ml boiling water. Cover amongst cling cinema together with function out for v minutes. Use a fork to fluff upward the couscous, mix inwards the mint, lemon juice & zest. Season to taste.
- Serve the chicken tagine on top of a generous serving of couscous, top amongst a scattering of flaked almond together with coriander. Enjoy!
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