Chicken Tajine Moroccan
To taste the fabulous Moroccan tajine dish, it’s not necessary to go to the Bedouins! Buy the famous pot and cook tajine in Moroccan at home! The recipe will surprise by simple ingredients that in the process of languishing acquire far from simple taste.
Moroccan Chicken Tajine
For cooking Moroccan chicken to us will need:
- average chicken 1.2-1.4 kg
- ground paprika 2 teaspoons
- ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon
- ground ginger 1 teaspoon
- ground turmeric 1 teaspoon
- cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon
- seasoning zira pinch
- olive oil 2 tablespoons
- garlic 1-2 cloves
- onion 1 pc
- lemon 1/2 pcs
- pitted olives 150 gr
- raisins 50 gr
- green cilantro
- parsley
Moroccan tajine can be prepared So:
Tazhin is not just dishes, so they call a dish, cooked in it. Traditionally, tajine is cooked on smoldering coals. The conditions of our apartments are unlikely to allow this. Cook on a tajine plate is still possible. If the gas stove – put fire divider. Never use the oven. If you If you use clay, but not ceramic, you should soak in cold water 12 hours before cooking. After drinking water, the clay tajine will not crumble and crack on hot plate.
Rinse and chop the chicken into 6-8 parts and dry. In bulk in a bowl mix all dry spices and roll chicken pieces.
Leave to marinate for 1-1.5 hours.
The cooking of the tajine takes place powerfully, no fuss with Tajine does not tolerate cooking.
Place the tazhin on the stove (do not forget the fire divider for gas burner), pour a little oil and heat at maximum the fire.
Put pieces of chicken in a bowl, pour the remaining oil on top and report the spices.
Cover the tazhin with a dome cover and leave for 15 minutes, then turn the meat over if it is roasted.
Put chopped onions and a crust of half a lemon on the meat, sliced in strips. Put the lid on the tazhin 15-20 minutes.
The onion has become transparent, it’s time to add the rest of the ingredients. Pour raisins, olives that you can put into pieces of chicken whole, chopped parsley greens on top.
Reduce the heat to a minimum, cover the tazhin with a dome and leave on 1,5 hour. Opening the lid is not recommended.
Tazhin should be served exactly in the dishes where it is prepared. Put in the center of the table, open the lid and sprinkle with chopped cilantro.
Tasty ideas:
The dish is prepared in different ways. To the chicken, after the second opening cap, you can add potatoes, rice, green beans, prunes, etc. Ready dinner will delight the whole family and will surprise guests. Serve tagine with delicious vegetable salads or homemade vegetables.
