Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous
Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, moroccan chicken and cous cous. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

How To Make Moroccan Chicken Couscous. Create the spice blend: Combine all the Moroccan spice blend ingredients together. Break up the tomatoes with a spoon.

Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have moroccan chicken and cous cous using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous:
  1. Get Aubergine Paste (this can be made in advance and chilled)
  2. Make ready 1 Aubergine
  3. Take 4 clove of garlic, crushed
  4. Get 1 tbsp olive oil
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp turmeric
  6. Make ready 1 salt and pepper for seasoning
  7. Get Main dish
  8. Take 1 Aubergine paste (see above)
  9. Get 2 chicken drumsticks
  10. Get 2 chicken thighes
  11. Get 2 tbsp olive oil, 1 in a heat proof pot and the other in a food bag.
  12. Make ready 400 grams tinned chopped tomatoes
  13. Prepare 1 pepper, sliced
  14. Take 125 grams cous cous
  15. Prepare 500 ml chicken stock
  16. Take Main dish (Spices)
  17. Get 1 whole chilli pepper
  18. Take 1/2 grams cinnamon shard
  19. Prepare 1 tsp paprika
  20. Prepare 1 tsp cumin

Pour garbanzo beans, tomatoes, and broth into the pot, and bring to a boil. While the couscous cooks, you can slice the chicken. After five minutes, remove the lid, stir in the other ingredients (apricots, parsley, almonds) and place the chicken on top. Layered together are diced chicken breasts, sauteed veggies, lemony couscous, sweet apricots or raisins, spices, fresh herbs, and sliced almonds and together they harmoniously create one unforgettable dish!

Steps to make Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous:
  1. For the paste : pre-heat the oven to 190°C / 170°C fan. Pierce the outer skin of the aubergine, place in the oven and bake for 40-50mins. Once removed from the oven, open up and scoop out the insides and mush up. Add the rest of the paste ingredients and mix together. You can store this in the fridge and use later or use straight away.
  2. Place the chicken in the food bag, add some salt and pepper, seal the bag and toss the chicken to cover in the oil.
  3. Heat the oil in the pot. Add the spices for 20seconds.
  4. Add the chicken and lightly brown. Once browned remove.
  5. Add the pepper and cook for 1min.
  6. Add the paste and cook for 1min.
  7. Add the tomatoes and cook for 2mins.
  8. Add the stock, scraping the bottom of the pot to deglaze.
  9. Place the chicken on top, skin down. Place the lid on the pot and cook on a low to medium heat for 35-40mins.
  10. Once the chicken is cooked, remove the chicken to rest and ladle out 200ml of the stock in to a bowl or jug.
  11. Add the cous cous to the separated stock, and leave to soak, fluffing up and separating with a fork after a couple mins.
  12. Turn the heat up on the pot with remaining stock to a high setting and reduce for 5mins.
  13. serve

Because who wants a bland and boring chicken dinner?? Juicy Moroccan chicken The chicken is marinated in earthy, aromatic spices and quickly sauteed until just cooked, golden brown and juicy. Honestly, there are times I make the couscous salad by itself but the chicken does add a lot of flavour and is great if you want to add some protein to your meal. Mix in the spices, followed by the tomatoes, stock, beans and remaining lemon zest and juice. Fork through the couscous to fluff it up, then serve with the chicken.

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