Moroccan-style chicken

Name: Moroccan-style chicken
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps olive oil; 2 chicken legs pieces; 1 onion, sliced; 1 lemon; 1 garlic clove, crushed; 1 small knob ginger, peeled and finely chopped; 2 teaspoons chermoula spice mix; 225 milliliters chicken or vegetable stock (from a cube is fine); 1 teaspoon clear honey; 1 handful green olives; 1 serving chopped coriander, to serve

Moroccan-style chicken takes approximately 50 minutes from beginning to end. For $1.47 per serving, you get a main course that serves 2. One portion of this dish contains roughly 23g of protein, 37g of fat, and a total of 485 calories. If you have knob ginger, chermoula spice mix, onion, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and dairy free diet. Moroccan Style Chicken, Moroccan Style Chicken in a Jar, and Moroccan-Style Roast Chicken are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

Place a large frying pan over medium heat with 1 tbsp of oil. Lightly season the chicken and cook, skin side down, for about 5 mins on one side, until golden. Turn over, then tip the onion into the pan. Cook for another 5 mins until the onion is soft and chicken golden all over.

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Whole Chicken

Onion

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Meanwhile, halve the lemon, then cut 1 half into quarters. Finely chop 1 quarter (leaving the skin on) and tip into a pestle and mortar or small blender. Pound together with remaining oil, garlic, ginger and chermoula to make a paste. Dollop into the frying pan and cook 1 min more until you can smell the spices.

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Garlic

Ginger

Spices

Lemon

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Blender

Mortar And Pestle

Pour over the chicken or vegetable stock and honey, then bring to the boil.

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Vegetable Stock

Whole Chicken

Honey

Turn down the heat, cover and leave to cook 20-30 mins until chicken is cooked through and the sauce has thickened and become glossy (you may need to uncover the pan for the fi nal 5 mins of cooking). Stir through the olives and squeeze over the juice of half the lemon.

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Whole Chicken

Olives