Chicken Or lamb tagine with lemon
Chicken Or lamb tagine with lemon

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken or lamb tagine with lemon. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Discover a delicious and authentic Moroccan chicken recipe. Made with preserved lemon and olives, you can cook it in a traditional tagine or the oven. Remove the flesh from the preserved lemon and chop the flesh finely.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chicken or lamb tagine with lemon using 18 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Or lamb tagine with lemon:
  1. Prepare 1/2 tsp saffron threads
  2. Make ready 300 ml Chicken stock, warm
  3. Make ready 3 onions sliced
  4. Take 1 tsp (heaped) dried ginger
  5. Make ready 1 tsp (heaped) sweet paprika
  6. Take 1 tsp (heaped) ground cumin
  7. Prepare 1 tsp (heaped) turmeric
  8. Take 1 tsp (heaped of cinnamon)
  9. Prepare 1 tsp ground black pepper
  10. Take 3 cloves garlic diced
  11. Take 6 large carrots cut into batons
  12. Prepare handful Black olives and
  13. Take 900 grams chicken thighs or breast chopped into large chunks OR DICED LAMB TOO
  14. Make ready 3 baking potatoes chopped into wedges
  15. Get handful coriander and parsley finely chopped
  16. Get 3 Preserved lemons small (you can get them from large supermarkets in the special ingredients aisle). (You can use strands of a lemon rind if you can't get them)
  17. Prepare 2 tbsp light olive oil
  18. Take to taste Salt

This is one of our favorite chicken entrees and we love the lemon and citrus flavors mixed with olives and spices. Turn the chicken regularly to prevent it sticking. Stir in the parsley and coriander just before serving. Garnish with the remaining preserved lemon and serve immediately.

Instructions to make Chicken Or lamb tagine with lemon:
  1. Chop the onion, add heat to the tagine or casserole dish, pour in the oil and start to gently fry the onions.
  3. Whilst they are softening prep the garlic, then add to the pot and stir.
  4. Whilst the garlic and onions are browning, prep the carrots and potatoes, keep an eye that the onion mixture isn’t burning.
  5. Once the onions have browned add the spices to heat through.
  6. Then add the chicken and stir.
  7. Next add in the carrots and potatoes in layers.
  8. Pour in the stock add a good pinch of salt make sure everything is sitting in the stock.
  9. Chop the lemon and add.
  10. Add some olives and place on the lid, leave it on a low heat so it simmers away, it will take at least 1 hour 15 minutes to cook check the veggies are cooked through. (lamb will take 2 hours) My tagine doesn’t have a hole to release the steam so I place a palate knife under the lid so some of the steam releases!
  11. Once cooked I pop it under the grill to give it some colour but this is totally optional! Serve and enjoy! Once it’s ready sprinkle with chopped herbs. It’s delicious with crusty bread or couscous!

I first started coming across recipes that used preserved lemons like this dish for a Moroccan tagine with preserved lemons and olives, about this Since I was not able to find any preserved lemons I finally decided to just make some myself and my first batch was ready to try. Olives are a food that I. Remove the chicken from the marinade and reserve marinade. Pat chicken dry and season with salt and pepper. In a tagine or large casserole over Taste juices and adjust seasoning.

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