Moroccan Chicken: Made on Stove Top, Crock-Pot or Tagine
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- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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5
ingredients
- 5 boneless skinless chicken breasts, chopped into bite size pieces
- 1 tablespoon ground coriander
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon mccormick's montreal steak grill seasoning
- 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- olive oil
- 1⁄2 of an onion (White, Yellow or red, your choice)
- 1 cup chicken stock, from a box
- 1⁄2 cup raisins (if you want, you can use more)
- 1⁄2 cup prune (if you want you can use more)
- couscous (optional, any flavor you want)
directions
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Super Easy:
- Olive Oil in pan on high heat.
- Add chopped onions and sautee a little.
- Add chicken.
- Mix a bit.
- Reduce heat and add all the spices and mix a little.
- Count to 60 so let the spices warm up a little.
- After 1 minute has passed, add chicken stock, prunes and rasins and stir a bit.
- Cover and simmer for about 15 minutes.
- Uncover, stir a bit again and simmer another 5 minutes until the stock has reduced a bit and it's not so runny.
- If you are using couscous, put the cous cous on a serving plate first then pour this chicken dish over the couscous which will absorb any loose liquid.
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- If using a crockpot (slowcooker).
- Dump everything in the same order as above: oil, onions, chicken, then spices, fruit, cover with stock and slow cook for anywhere from 4 hours (ideal) to no more than 10. The longer it cooks, the better it will be - but it WILL dry out after 10 hours unless you a little extra chicken stock.
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Side Dish ideas:
- Polenta.
- Enjoy!
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Reviews
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We live out in farm country and we have no quality restaurants outside of the town steakhouse. The flavors of this dish are so unique compared with our typical American cooking I felt like I was eating at a fine-eating ethnic restaurant! (Okay...I don't get out too often.) Wonderful flavor! <br/><br/>My only problem was with the time in the crockpot. I work in town and spent 8 hours letting it simmer unchecked/unstirred. Even though I added twice the broth, the chicken was still dry and disintigrated into a texture similar to pulled pork. I recommend cooking this for the first time on a day where you'll be home to keep tabs. Still, I served it over the couscous and it was the best new recipe that I've made for a long while.
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This was superb! I forgot the chicken broth so what I did instead is rough chop about 2 roma tomatoes and throw them in with a splash of water (since tomatoes are very traditional for these) and it was GREAT! I served with boxed cous cous and Naan bread. Got rave reviews from my boyfriend. Thank you for sharing it! I will be making it often!
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Easy and tasty! I made mine in the crockpot and it worked great -- the spices are absolutely delicious. I did not use the oil and I used dried apricots instead of the other dried fruit suggested because that's what I had. I served mine over couscous. I didn't have any problems with dryness that others had. Will make again!
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Tweaks
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This was very good! I used the crockpot version. I didn't have coriander or prunes. I left out the oil, dumped everything in the crock and used dried apricots instead of prunes. I served this over wild rice. I love the smoked paprika... this reminds me I need to start using it more often! Made for I Recommend Zaar Tag Game 2010.
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