How to Prepare Yummy Chicken tagine

Chicken tagine.

You can cook Chicken tagine using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken tagine

1. It's 1 kg of chicken (breast will work but thighs or 1 chicken quarter per person is best.).
2. It's 1 of vegetable stock.
3. You need 1 of bay leaf.
4. You need 150 g of dried apricots.
5. You need 2 tbsp of oil.
6. You need 4 of garlic cloves, crushed.
7. You need 2 of onions, roughly chopped.
8. It's 2 of cinnamon sticks.
9. You need 3 tsp of ground cumin.
10. Prepare 1 tbsp of coriander seeds, crushed.
11. It's 6 of cardamon pods, crushed.
12. You need 1 tsp of ground ginger.
13. You need of salt and pepper to season.
14. It's 1 glass of white wine.
15. It's 125 g of fruit chutney.

Chicken tagine step by step

1. Place the dried apricots in a bowl and cover them with boiling water, leaving them to soak for at least one hour..
2. Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a casserole dish over a high heat and brown the chicken. (if using breast slice into medium chunks before browning). Once browned transfer the meat to a plate for later..
3. Heat the remaining oil in the casserole dish over a medium heat. Add the garlic, onions, and carrots. Cook for about 3-5 minutes until softened..
4. Add all of the spices (bay leaf, cinnamon, coriander seeds, cardamon pods, cumin and ginger) and season with salt and pepper. Fry for a few more minutes..
5. Return the meat to the casserole dish with all the vegetables. Add the wine, chutney, water from the apricots and enough vegetable stock to cover the meat and vegetables. keep on the heat and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally to deglaze..
6. Leave to simmer on the hob for for about 1 hour stirring occasionally until the liquid has reduced by half..
7. Add the apricots and cook for a further half an hour..
8. The meat and vegetables should be soft and tender at this point..
9. Serve with rice, couscous or good chunky bread..