Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken tagine. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Heat the butter and olive oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat, and brown the chicken on all sides. Chicken tagine is a classic Moroccan dish made in a special pot called a tagine and usually features preserved lemons and olives. Coat the chicken thighs evenly with the flour mixture, shaking off the excess; reserve the remaining flour mixture. In a large fry pan over medium-high heat, warm the oil.

Chicken tagine is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chicken tagine is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken tagine using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken tagine:

1. Make ready 1 kg chicken (breast will work but thighs or 1 chicken quarter per person is best.)
2. Make ready 1 vegetable stock
3. Prepare 1 bay leaf
4. Get 150 g dried apricots
5. Make ready 2 tbsp oil
6. Take 4 garlic cloves, crushed
7. Make ready 2 onions, roughly chopped
8. Make ready 2 cinnamon sticks
9. Take 3 tsp ground cumin
10. Make ready 1 tbsp coriander seeds, crushed
11. Get 6 cardamon pods, crushed
12. Take 1 tsp ground ginger
13. Prepare salt and pepper to season
14. Prepare 1 glass white wine
15. Make ready 125 g fruit chutney

Add the water to the tagine, cover, and place on a heat diffuser over medium-low heat. Chicken tagine is a traditional Moroccan dish of chicken pieces braised with spices, garlic, onion, olives, and preserved lemons. It's company-worthy yet easy to throw together. Mix cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, coriander, ginger, mint, salt, and pepper together in a bowl.

Steps to make Chicken tagine:

1. Place the dried apricots in a bowl and cover them with boiling water, leaving them to soak for at least one hour.
2. Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a casserole dish over a high heat and brown the chicken. (if using breast slice into medium chunks before browning). Once browned transfer the meat to a plate for later.
3. Heat the remaining oil in the casserole dish over a medium heat. Add the garlic, onions, and carrots. Cook for about 3-5 minutes until softened.
4. Add all of the spices (bay leaf, cinnamon, coriander seeds, cardamon pods, cumin and ginger) and season with salt and pepper. Fry for a few more minutes.
5. Return the meat to the casserole dish with all the vegetables. Add the wine, chutney, water from the apricots and enough vegetable stock to cover the meat and vegetables. keep on the heat and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally to deglaze.
6. Leave to simmer on the hob for for about 1 hour stirring occasionally until the liquid has reduced by half.
7. Add the apricots and cook for a further half an hour.
8. The meat and vegetables should be soft and tender at this point.
9. Serve with rice, couscous or good chunky bread.

It's company-worthy yet easy to throw together. Mix cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, coriander, ginger, mint, salt, and pepper together in a bowl. Bring a small pot of water to a boil; add apricots and raisins. To make Moroccan chicken tagine, you will need some chicken (breast, thighs, or any other part), vegetables of your choice, olive oil, and fresh spices and aromatics. The ingredients are very basic and the good part, you probably already have them in your fridge.

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