Ramadan Delights: Moroccan Recipe - Chicken Tagine

This Moroccan-inspired dish is a wonderfully tangy summer meal

Chicken Tagine
Serves: 4
Ingredients

• 1 kg whole skinless chicken (cut into 8 parts)
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 150 gm red onions
• 100 gm green olives (minced)
• 50 gm parsley (chopped)
• 50 gm cilantro (chopped) 
• 15 gm preserved lemon slices
• 3 pinches saffron
• 50 gm turmeric
• 100 gm ground ginger
• 2 cups water
• 200 gm butter
• 200 ml olive oil
• 30 gm salt
• 15 gm white pepper

Method
Take a thick, deep pan and bring it up to heat. When hot, add olive oil and then sliced onions. Cook for a few minutes and add chicken pieces and some stock, enough to cover the chicken. Simmer for at least 40 minutes, until chicken becomes tender.
Add minced garlic and saffron, ginger, turmeric, salt and white pepper.
Continue to simmer the chicken adding other ingredients - lemon, parsley, cilantro and olives. After about 15 minutes, it will turn into a thick gravy.
Serve with rice, cooked separately, green olives and preserved lemon slices.

• Ramadan Delight