This slow cooked chicken tagine is delish, would definitely recommend as a tasty meal on a chilly day! We did it with chicken drumsticks, but it would work great with chicken thighs on the bone too! 🍗
We served it with giant cous cous, cooked with some garlic, lemon, onion, red pepper and fresh corriander, parsley and mint 🌿
This recipe will serve 4-5 people.
Ingredients
- 10 chicken drumsticks 🍗
- Can of chickpeas
- 1 red/white onion diced
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1/2 fennel bulb finely diced
- 1 tin chopped tomatoes 🍅
- Harissa paste (1tbsp for tagine, 1tbsp to brush the chicken)
- Paprika 2tsp
- Ground cumin 2tsp
- Ground ginger 1tsp
- Tumeric 1tsp
- Ground corriander 2 tsp
- Ground cinnamon 1tsp
- Cardamom pods 10
- Pinch cayenne 🌶
- Chicken stock (500ml)
- Fresh mint 2 sprigs
- Fresh corriander (small handful)
Method
- Preheat the oven to 150 degrees C (fan)
- Start by brushing each chicken drumstick with harissa paste, then brown the outside of each chicken breast to seal, set aside
- Fry the onion, garlic and fennel in a large frying pan. Meanwhile add all of the ground spices in a small bowl and add around 2tbsp of water to create a paste. Add the paste to the frying veg once slightly softened. Make sure they don’t burn! Cook for 2minutes and then add the remaining harissa paste.
- Pour this mixture into an oven safe casserole dish (ideally one with a lid). Rinse out the pan with a small amount of the stock and pour into the dish. Now add the cardamom pods, tomatoes, rest of the stock and chicken to the casserole dish and mix. Rinse the chickpeas thoroughly and then add these to the dish too.
- Pop on the lid and put the dish into the oven for around 2hrs. Then remove the lid and cook for a further 30minutes to reduce the sauce. We found that the sauce wasn’t a thick as we wanted so we mixed in some cornflour slurry to thicken it up!
- Remove the tagine from the oven and mix in the chopped mint and corriander before serving with some cous cous.
Hope you enjoy making this yummy dinner, especially as the colder weather is approaching! ☺️ ❄️ 🥘
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