Recipe of Perfect Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash using 20 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.
A hearty tagine with north African spices. I used a honeynut squash from a friend's garden, but you can use any autumn squash like butternut or acorn.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash:
- 2 Tbsp ras el hanout (recipe in method)
- 2.5 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 lb chicken thighs, cut into chunks
- 1 onion, sliced
- 4 cloves garlic smashed
- 2 inch knob ginger, grated
- 3/4 cup dried apricots, quartered
- 1 (14 oz) can diced tomatoes
- 2 cups hot water
- 1 Bou chicken bouillon cube
- 1 cup diced squash
- 1 cup pitted green olives, halved
- 2 Tbsp ghee or oil
- 8 oz frozen spinach, thawed
- 1 cup parked couscous
- 1 cup cilantro, chopped
- 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup pistachios, chopped
Instructions to make to make Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash
- If you're using a traditional tagine, begin by preheating the oven with tagine inside at 325F. If you don't have a tagine, you can do this recipe on the stove top in a Dutch oven and transfer to the oven later on.
- Combine the olive oil, ras el hanout, salt, and pepper in a small bowl.
- Ras el hanout: 12 green cardamom pods. 4 black cardamom pods. 4 tsp cumin seeds. 4 tsp coriander seeds. 2 tsp anise seeds. 1/2 tsp allspice berries. 1/4 tsp black peppercorns. 4 tsp ground ginger. 2 tsp nutmeg. 2 tsp Aleppo pepper. 2 tsp cinnamon. Grind all in spice mill. If you want to use a premixed Moroccan spice blend that's fine too.
- Add half the spice paste to the chicken and mix.
- Add the ginger to remaining spice mix.
- Dissolve the bouillon cube in 2 cups of hot water.
- Combine the onion and garlic in a bowl.
- Combine the apricot and tomato in a bowl
- Combine the olives and squash in a bowl.
- Heat the ghee in a skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add the onion and garlic and brown.
- Add the remaining spice mix and cook until fragrant.
- Add the onion mixture to the tagine
- Deglaze the skillet with the tomatoes, apricots and 1/2 cup of the stock.
- Transfer the tomatoes to the tagine.
- Nestle the chicken into the tagine
- Cover with the lid and bake for 45 min.
- Add the squash and the olives and continue baking for another 30-45 min.
- Meanwhile, combine the cilantro, the zest of the lemon, the juice of the lemon, and the pistachios.
- Add the remaining 1.5 cups stock to a small pot. Bring to a boil and add the couscous. Cook on low, covered for 10 min followed by removing from heat and letting sit to steam.
- When the squash is tender, add the spinach over top and continue cooking for 10 min.
- Remove the tagine from the oven and top with the cilantro mixture.
- Serve in deep bowls with the couscous and lots of the tagine.
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