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Moroccan Chicken

About the recipe

This is one of my favorite dishes, given to me by a Moroccan colleague of my wife in 2006. The combination of the meat, olives, fermented lemon and spices makes it mouth-wateringly delicious for me and a dish we will definitely eat every year.

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Servings:

4 persons

Region:

Africa

Kitchen:

Moroccan

Working hours:

45 min

Total preparation:

1.5 hours

Course/dish:

Main course

M, f, v or v

Meat

Material:

-

Season:

-

Complexity:

Simple

Ingredients and supplies

  • 1 kilo chicken (with or without leg, pieces of fillet or chicken thigh meat....it doesn't matter).
  • 1 blk/300 g pitted olives
  • 1 fermented lemon
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • generous dash of olive oil (but sunflower oil will also work)
  • butter
  • 1/4 bunch of coriander
  • 1/4 bunch of parsley (flat, not curly!)
  • 2 tsp pepper
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp paprika powder
  • 2 tsp cumin powder
  • 2 tsp saffron powder
  • 2 tsp ginger powder

(by tsp - teaspoon we really mean full teaspoons!)

Prep-work

  • Chop the coriander, garlic and parsley.
  • Clean the chicken and cut into smaller pieces if necessary.

Preparation

  • Dry chicken
  • Add oil to the pan and place on medium high "heat"
  • Place the chicken in the pan and brown slightly.

  • First add the spice powders to the pan, stir.
  • Add the coriander, garlic and parsley and stir again.
  • Let it brown briefly.
  • Add cold water (chicken should just be covered) and bring to the boil again.
  • Once boiling, reduce heat and simmer for 45 min.
    Stir occasionally and check that it does not stick, add some more water if necessary.
    This should become a sauce in which you will later cook the olives.
  • When the chicken is cooked through, remove it from the pan.
  • Cut the fermented lemon into small pieces and add to the sauce.
  • Add the olives to the remaining sauce and simmer gently for about 15 minutes.
  • Put the chicken back.
  • Sprinkle the coriander over it.

Cook rice with it (assume you can fry it, it says on the packaging).

Serve in a deep plate with rice first, then some chicken and pour some sauce over the rice and chicken.

KPK

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30 december 2022

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