Chicken Tagin
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Chicken Tagine is a historically a berber dish from North Africa, it was named after the type of cookware in which it was cooked.
The Chicken Tagine is a very popular dish from Morocco, traditionally it is cooked in a flat and circular clay vessel with low sides and a large cone or dome shaped cover that sits on the base during cooking.
The cover is designed to promote the return of all the condensation from the bottom, with the cover removed from the base it is easily used to be served onto the table.
Moroccan tanginess are slow cooked stews compared the to tunisian tagines which are more like fritatas or quiches.
The traditional way to make chicken tagine is to use a tagine pot and to place it over coals, larges bricks of charcoal are purchased specifically for their ability to stay hot for hours.
However we won't be showing you how to cook it the traditional way but a much simpler and faster way!
In this how to cook Chicken Tagine video, we didn't have the tagine pot which we usually used, and not many people do, its easy to find the pot however it's an added cost.
So we decided to show you a way to make chicken tagine the traditional taste without the extra cost!
The following amount should serve about 6 people enough for seconds for this delicious dish.
If you want to cook for less people then just cut down on the chicken and go for less vegetables.
500g Couscous
8 Chicken Thighs (2kgs)
9 Pickled lemons
50g olives
1/2 a tin of tomatoes
Olive oil
Bay leaves
Paprika
Black pepper
Curry Powder
Cumin
Cinnamon
Butter
Capsicum
2 large Onions
4 Carrots
If you have any questions please drop them in the comments and i will get back to you.
let me know how you Chicken Tagine turned out!
