Chicken Tagine with Lemon and Olives
Chicken Tagine with Lemon and Olives

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken tagine with lemon and olives. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Mediterranean, Moroccan, Calamata Olives, Chicken, Cinnamon Stick, Green Olives, Lemon Juice, Poultry, Preserved Lemon, Dinner, Main Course. Transfer to tagine, if you are using one, or leave in skillet. A tagine is a terra-cotta pot with a conical lid used in Morocco.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken tagine with lemon and olives using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tagine with Lemon and Olives:
  1. Make ready 3 tbsp Olive oil
  2. Make ready 2 red onions
  3. Get 3 garlic cloves
  4. Take to taste salt
  5. Get 2 tsp ground ginger
  6. Get 1 tsp saffron
  7. Take 1 tsp cinnamon
  8. Make ready 1/2 lemon (juiced)
  9. Get 1 small jar preserved lemon paste
  10. Take 2 tbsp chopped parsley
  11. Take 1 small bunch of coriander
  12. Prepare 6 chicken thighs
  13. Prepare Your choice and amount of olives
  14. Make ready 175 ml water

Chicken, Olive, and Lemon Tagine (Djaj Mqualli). Tagine, the Moroccan stew, shares its name with the terra-cotta pot it's traditionally cooked in, whose neat conical lid promotes convection and even cooking. There are many versions; maybe the most classic is braised chicken, green olives. "Tagine" refers to both the Moroccan braised dish and the traditional vessel it's prepared in. If you don't own a tagine, you can use a Dutch oven to slow cook the chicken and vegetables with fragrant spices, preserved lemon and green olives.

Instructions to make Chicken Tagine with Lemon and Olives:
  1. This is based on using an actual tagine pot. It will assume you can use it on direct gas but if not you can easily do the following steps in a heavy bottomed pan first instead (which is what I've done)
  2. PREP: * Thinly slice your onions length ways. *Crush your garlic and mix with 1/2 tsp of salt. *Add a little warm water to your saffron in small vessel. *Chop your coriander roughly.
  3. Heat you pan on a low heat and add the Olive oil. Add the chicken thighs to the pan skin side down and seal for a few mins. Turn over and seal other side. You are not cooking the chicken here so this is a 10 min step max… You'd like a nice bit of browning if you can
  4. Remove the chicken to side
  5. Now add the onion to pan and add the mashed garlic and salt too. Mix over medium heat.
  6. Sprinkle the ginger, pour the saffron water and add the cinnamon, followed by the lemon juice and the preserved lemon. Add the parsley and coriander and mix it all up. Smells awesome!
  7. If you have a tagine you can now transfer the mix to the tagine. If not carry on with your pan.
  8. Now layer your chicken thighs onto your mix and add your olives
  9. Now pour over 175ml of water in to the dish (or pan if you have no tagine)
  10. Now, put tagine into oven at 180 or if you can leave on hob on low heat for 45 mins or until the chicken is cooked through and has clear liquids (no red). If you are using a pan at this time, you will need a lid for it that seals well. You can always wrap some foil around the seal to help. Leave the pan on low heat.
  11. If you have spare herbs add them along with any salt to taste. Add couscous or breads to enjoy a tasty meal

Place chicken on a warm platter. Spoon juices with the preserved lemon, olives, and onions over chicken and serve. Cook a one-pot chicken tagine the whole family will love. It somehow says summer and autumn in one bite using a gentle but heady Moroccan spice mix. Uncover, place the olives and lemon slices on top and drizzle the lemons with a little oil.

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