Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Moroccan Chicken.

This is a quick chicken dish with Moroccan flavours - its not claiming to be a full blown, slow cooked tagine, but is great to get a North African Flavour in to your midweek! You can also make this in the oven, browning the whole chicken pieces,on the hob first. I tried it in the oven with whole legs of chicken and it was fantastic.
Serves 2

2 tbsp olive oil
2 skinned chicken breast, diced
1 leek, finely chopped, ( if you don't have a leek, use an onion)
½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tbsp tomato purée
75ml white wine
30g/1oz dried apricots
3tbsp fresh coriander leaves, roughly chopped. ( parsley leaves work as well)
Method

1. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over a medium heat.
2. Add the chicken pieces and brown on all sides.
3. Add the leek and fry for 1-2 minutes.
4. Add all the other ingredients, except the coriander and stir well.
Bring to the boil, then simmer gently for 15 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through.
5. To serve, pour into a bowl and garnish with the coriander.

To make a couscous that goes well with this, in the pan you cooked the chicken in, put some couscous ( use packet instructions for portion size), and add 1 and half times as much in volume boiling chicken stock. When the couscous is cooked, stir in the juice of a lemon, lots of chopped parsley or coriander, black pepper and chopped roasted veg ( peppers, aubergine, courgette).

4 comments:

Sparx said...

Great recipe - might try it without the chicken, love morrocan cooking.

Thanks for the comment on my blog - are you a frog because you're french like my frog (he calls himself that) or for another reason?!

Mrs Frog said...

I'm Frog because i once lived in France, although I'm british by birth and now live in the UK.

Sparx said...

Aha - I should have guessed the French connection by your reading list.

I have tagged you in a blog game. I don't think it's your thing really, I picked names at random and yours was one... rules are back at my blog if you want to play.

Mrs Frog said...

Thanks will take a looksie when i have a moment. On dial up after moving at the mo, so things are a bit slow!