Chicken and Date Tagine
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 8 chicken thighs, on the bone, skin on
- 1 small butternut squash, peeled and cut into chunks
- 1 red onion, cut into wedges
- 300 ml chicken stock
- 400 g cherry tomatoes
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 8 medjool dates, halved
- coriander leaves, from a large bunch
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SPICE PASTE
- 1 small red onion, roughly chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- thumb sized piece gingerroot, roughly chopped
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon mild chili powder
- coriander, roots from a large bunch
- 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- olive oil
directions
- Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5.
- Put all the spice paste ingredients in a small food processor with 2 tbsp olive oil and whizz to a paste.
- Brown the chicken thighs all over in a tagine or large, wide pan.
- Scoop out then add the spice paste and cook for a few minutes until fragrant.
- Add the squash, onion, stock, tomatoes and cinnamon and stir.
- Sit the chicken on top (push down a bit into the sauce). Cook uncovered in the oven for 40 mins then add the dates and cook for anothe r20 minutes - the chicken should be browned and cooked and the sauce reduced.
- Scatter with coriander and serve with buttered couscous.
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