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Chicken tagine recipe
Chicken, olives and preserved lemon, slow.
Ingredients
- 4 chicken legs
- 1 preserved lemon
- 100 g green olives
- 2 onions
- 3 garlic
- 1 coriander
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 pinch saffron
- 1 tsp ground cumin
How to make Chicken tagine
- Rub the chicken with garlic, ginger, cumin and saffron and leave it while you slice the onion.
- Lay a bed of onion in a heavy pot, sit the chicken on it, add a little water and cover. Cook low for an hour, turning once.
- Add the olives and the rinsed peel of the preserved lemon and cook until the sauce is thick and the chicken falls off the bone.
- Finish with a lot of coriander. Serve with bread, not couscous, this one wants mopping.
What is Chicken tagine?
Chicken tagine is a traditional dish from Morocco, and takes about 90 minutes from start to finish. It is built around green olives. The recipe below uses 9 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Chicken tagine take?
At 90 minutes it is slower than 62% of the 588 dishes in Copper's atlas. The method runs to 4 steps.
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