Moroccan Chicken Tagine
Ingredients
- 1 chicken
- 4 onions sliced
- Olive oil
- Good pinch saffron threads
- Bay leaf
- 3 small red chili peppers
- Salt and pepper
- 1 cinnamon stick broken in half
- Handful of prunes soaking in water
- Handful on peeled almonds
Directions
Cut up a chicken into regular pieces. Fry onions in olive oil in ceramic dish. Sauté chicken pieces in olive oil in skillet and add to onions as their skins are golden. Add all the spices to the onion mixture. Add prunes to chicken and deglaze skillet with soaking water. Add to chicken and simmer about 40 minutes half covered. Fry almonds in a little olive oil or toast then in toaster or oven. Remove chilies, bay leaf and cinnamon stick. Serve on couscous or rice and scatter almonds on top.
