Thursday 20 June 2013

Slimming World-style Chicken Tagine


A tagine is a north African dish - usually found in Morocco or Tunisia - that takes its name from the special pot in which it is cooked. The tagine pot is usually made of clay and often painted bright colours and comes into parts; a dish on the bottom and a cone shape that goes on top as a lid. I don't have an actual tagine pot, but often recipes for tagines can be cooked in a casserole dish - so I think you can still call a Moroccan-style stew a tagine even if it isn't cooked in the pot. Or would anyone disagree?

This is my take on a chicken tagine, minus the ingredients I don't like, and adapted to fit in with the Slimming World plan.

I made this to serve just one but it's easy to scale up. You need:
1 boneless chicken thigh
1 tsp crushed black peppercorns
half an onion
1 preserved lemon
250ml chicken stock
pinch of saffron
pinch of cinnamon

Chop the onion (you don't really need a picture, but here's one anyway!). Fry until softened in Fry Light in a heavy-bottomed pan that has a tight-fitting lid.

Crush the black peppercorns in a pestle and mortar


Make some chicken stock using a stock cube and add the saffron and cinnamon


Slice a preserved lemon

Pour the stock over the chicken, adding the crushed peppercorn and the preserved lemon.


I also added some potatoes, though tagines are more often served with cous cous.


Place the lid on the pan and simmer over a medium heat until the chicken is cooked through and the potatoes are tender.


This is not really a traditional tagine but it is along similar lines so hopefully Chris will accept it for the Bloggers Around the World challenge, where the theme this month is Morocco.


2 comments:

  1. I also have no tagine pot. I saw one once, but I don't have one. I guess we still can call this tagine. I also accept it for Bloggers Around the World. Thank you for joining again.

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  2. I think a dutch oven works just as well as a tagine pot unless the dish really needs a lot of steam. The clay releases more mositure. I haven't cooked with preserved lemons yet, this dish looks wonderful.

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