Saturday, 31 March 2012

Moroccan-Inspired Chicken Dish with Couscous

I decided to make this recipe one evening when I was sick of studying and wanted to make an actual dinner for myself. The past few days I had only made easy dinners because I wasn't really felling inspired, but yesterday I looked through my cupboard and found all these good ingredients for my dish. I have always loved Northern African cuisine so I found some recipes online and added some of my own things.
Now, this is only Moroccan inspired because I don't actually have all the things required to make a real Moroccan dish, like a Tajin, but bear with me.


Ingredients:

  • 2 chicken thighs, skinned
  • 1/2 can of chickpeas, drain and rinse
  • 2 tomatoes, diced
  • handful of dried apricots, cut up into medium-sized pieces
  • 100 g couscous
  • 250 ml chicken broth
  • juice from half a lime/lemon
  • Spices: (I don´t know the amounts for each seeing as I just did it on my own.)
    • ground cumin
    • ground cinnamon
    • ground cardamom (I only had seeds, but used my mortar to fix that)
    • salt
    • black pepper
    • red pepper
Directions:
  1. Mix all your spices in a mortar and crush/blend well. Put your chicken thighs in a bowl and rub the spices mixture on them. It´s better if the thighs are skinned so that the meat can soak up the flavors.
  2. Heat some olive oil in a pan on medium-high heat, add the thighs and cook 3 minutes on each side.
  3. Add chickpeas and tomatoes, let it cook together for 5 minutes.
  4. Add the broth and apricots, bring to a boil. The cover with a lid, reduce heat and let simmer for 10-15 minutes depending on the size of the chicken.
  5. Prepare the couscous from the instructions on the pack.
  6. Add the lime or lemon juice to the pan.
Bon Appétit!


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