Tangine

Chicken Tagine

Chicken Tagine

By: Lee Holmes

The tagine is a brilliant pot for slow-cooking savoury stews and vegetable dishes. Try this delicious chicken tangine tonight.


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Recipe


Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 1 tsp turmeric
  • 800g chicken thigh fillets, chopped
  • ½ cup chicken stock or water
  • Celtic sea salt & black pepper, to taste
  • Handful caperberries
  • ¾ cup Sicilian green olives
  • ¼ cup chopped preserved lemon

  • Salad
  • A few tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 cucumber, sliced
  • 1 red onion, sliced
  • Handful mint leaves
  • Squeeze lemon

  • Couscous or rice, to serve

Method


  • Warm olive oil in tagine over medium heat and fry garlic and turmeric, stirring until fragrant.
  • Add chicken and cook on high heat for 5–10 mins, to brown.
  • Turn down temperature and add stock, season and simmer on low for 20 mins.
  • Add caperberries, olives and preserved lemon and cook for a further 10 mins on low.
  • Mix salad ingredients in bowl.
  • Remove from stovetop (remember, bottom of tagine pot will be extremely hot).
  • Serve with couscous or rice.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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