Moroccan Chicken Stew
Moroccan Chicken Stew

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have moroccan chicken stew using 21 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Moroccan Chicken Stew:
  1. Get olive oil
  2. Prepare chicken thighs with skin
  3. Take carrots, peeled, sliced 1/2"
  4. Take yellow onion, roughly chopped
  5. Get garlic cloves, mashed
  6. Make ready salt
  7. Make ready freshly ground black pepper
  8. Make ready ground cumin
  9. Take powdered or fresh ginger
  10. Get ground coriander
  11. Take ground cinnamon
  12. Get tomato paste
  13. Make ready less-sodium chicken broth
  14. Take frozen okra (optional)
  15. Make ready chickpeas or garbanzo beans (11 oz.), drained
  16. Take dried apricots, halved
  17. Get plum tomatoes, halved, seeded, sliced 1/4”
  18. Get turmeric (optional)
  19. Take fresh parsley or cilantro, chopped
  20. Prepare slivered almonds (optional)
  21. Get prepared cooked rice or couscous (serve 4)

Made with an abundance of herbs and spices, chicken, olives and chickpeas, this dish will transport your taste buds to the souks of Marrakech! If you didn't know already, I love Moroccan food, like absolutely adore it! Remove from Dutch oven, reserving oil in pan. Add chicken to pan, half at a time.

Instructions to make Moroccan Chicken Stew:
  1. Heat olive oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add chicken to the pot and cook 5 minutes by browning both sides. Place chicken on a plate to the side and remove the skin. [Repeat this step if all the chicken pieces didn’t fit on the bottom of the pot]
  2. With a dash more olive oil added to the pot, add carrots and sauté for 3 minutes. Next, add onions and sauté for another 2 minutes. Add garlic and next 6 ingredients and sauté for 30 seconds until fragrant. Add tomato paste and stir this mixture.
  3. Stir in broth and continue to heat by scraping the bottom of the pan to loosen the browned bits on the bottom. Return chicken to the pot and cover. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 30 minutes.
  4. Add okra (optional), chickpeas, and apricots to the pot and cover. Raise heat to low-medium and cook for 20 minutes. [The okra and apricots will help to thicken the broth slightly]
  5. Lower the heat to a simmer and add the tomatoes and turmeric (optional) and cook for another 15 minutes until tomatoes are softened.
  6. Serve on a platter with a bed of rice, topped with parsley or cilantro, and almonds (optional). Or, serve in a large bowl with rice or couscous to the side.

Remove from Dutch oven, reserving oil in pan. Add chicken to pan, half at a time. Cook quickly until lightly browned, stirring frequently. Place in a warm bowl to serve and scatter with coriander. Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy-based pan.

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