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Discover a delicious and authentic Moroccan chicken recipe. Moroccan Lamb or Beef Tagine With Carrots, Olives and Preserved Lemon. Add a bit of chicken stock and lemon juice, then cook over low heat until the chicken is cooked through, and your house smells amazing.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chicken or lamb tagine with lemon using 18 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Or lamb tagine with lemon:
- Make ready 1/2 tsp saffron threads
- Make ready 300 ml Chicken stock, warm
- Make ready 3 onions sliced
- Get 1 tsp (heaped) dried ginger
- Prepare 1 tsp (heaped) sweet paprika
- Get 1 tsp (heaped) ground cumin
- Make ready 1 tsp (heaped) turmeric
- Get 1 tsp (heaped of cinnamon)
- Take 1 tsp ground black pepper
- Take 3 cloves garlic diced
- Take 6 large carrots cut into batons
- Take handful Black olives and
- Make ready 900 grams chicken thighs or breast chopped into large chunks OR DICED LAMB TOO
- Get 3 baking potatoes chopped into wedges
- Take handful coriander and parsley finely chopped
- Get 3 Preserved lemons small (you can get them from large supermarkets in the special ingredients aisle). (You can use strands of a lemon rind if you can't get them)
- Make ready 2 tbsp light olive oil
- Get to taste Salt
I first started coming across recipes that used preserved lemons like this dish for a Moroccan tagine with preserved lemons and olives, about this Since I was not able to find any preserved lemons I finally decided to just make some myself and my first batch was ready to try. Olives are a food that I. Tagines are used in the Middle East and Africa for slow-cooked meals of meat and vegetables. In this recipe chicken is cooked with preserved lemon, olives, and a variety of herbs and spices.
Steps to make Chicken Or lamb tagine with lemon:
- Chop the onion, add heat to the tagine or casserole dish, pour in the oil and start to gently fry the onions.1. Whilst they are softening prep the garlic, then add to the pot and stir.
- Whilst the garlic and onions are browning, prep the carrots and potatoes, keep an eye that the onion mixture isn’t burning.
- Once the onions have browned add the spices to heat through.
- Then add the chicken and stir.
- Next add in the carrots and potatoes in layers.
- Pour in the stock add a good pinch of salt make sure everything is sitting in the stock.
- Chop the lemon and add.
- Add some olives and place on the lid, leave it on a low heat so it simmers away, it will take at least 1 hour 15 minutes to cook check the veggies are cooked through. (lamb will take 2 hours) My tagine doesn’t have a hole to release the steam so I place a palate knife under the lid so some of the steam releases!
- Once cooked I pop it under the grill to give it some colour but this is totally optional! Serve and enjoy! Once it’s ready sprinkle with chopped herbs. It’s delicious with crusty bread or couscous!
All these flavors cook together gently and slowly, developing into a fragrant and flavor-packed meal. Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemons and Olives. Scrape the lamb and spices into a tagine or a medium enameled cast-iron casserole; discard the lemon zest. Add the water, carrots and onion and bring to a simmer. Spoon off any fat from the broth.
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