🇲🇦 Morocco recipe
Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemons
The crown jewel of Moroccan cuisine, this tagine features chicken braised to silken tenderness in a fragrant sauce of saffron, ginger, and turmeric, studded with briny preserved lemons and plump olives. Traditionally cooked in a conical clay tagine that traps steam for intensely flavored results.
Prep1 hr + marinating
Cook1 hr 15 mins
Serves4
Difficultyhard
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken (about 1.5kg), cut into 8 pieces
- 2 large preserved lemons, pulp discarded, rind rinsed and cut into strips
- 200g green or violet olives, rinsed and drained
- 1 large yellow onion, grated on a box grater
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads, crumbled
- 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 large bunch fresh cilantro, tied with string
- 1 large bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley, tied with string
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 250ml water
- Salt to taste
Method
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Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 420
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbs
- 22 g
- Fat
- 22 g
