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How to Make Quick Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ John Bush

Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous
Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, moroccan chicken and cous cous. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have moroccan chicken and cous cous using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous:
  1. Prepare Aubergine Paste (this can be made in advance and chilled)
  2. Make ready 1 Aubergine
  3. Get 4 clove of garlic, crushed
  4. Take 1 tbsp olive oil
  5. Make ready 1 tbsp turmeric
  6. Make ready 1 salt and pepper for seasoning
  7. Get Main dish
  8. Prepare 1 Aubergine paste (see above)
  9. Get 2 chicken drumsticks
  10. Get 2 chicken thighes
  11. Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil, 1 in a heat proof pot and the other in a food bag.
  12. Prepare 400 grams tinned chopped tomatoes
  13. Take 1 pepper, sliced
  14. Take 125 grams cous cous
  15. Take 500 ml chicken stock
  16. Make ready Main dish (Spices)
  17. Make ready 1 whole chilli pepper
  18. Take 1/2 grams cinnamon shard
  19. Take 1 tsp paprika
  20. Make ready 1 tsp cumin
Steps to make Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous:
  1. For the paste : pre-heat the oven to 190°C / 170°C fan. Pierce the outer skin of the aubergine, place in the oven and bake for 40-50mins. Once removed from the oven, open up and scoop out the insides and mush up. Add the rest of the paste ingredients and mix together. You can store this in the fridge and use later or use straight away.
  2. Place the chicken in the food bag, add some salt and pepper, seal the bag and toss the chicken to cover in the oil.
  3. Heat the oil in the pot. Add the spices for 20seconds.
  4. Add the chicken and lightly brown. Once browned remove.
  5. Add the pepper and cook for 1min.
  6. Add the paste and cook for 1min.
  7. Add the tomatoes and cook for 2mins.
  8. Add the stock, scraping the bottom of the pot to deglaze.
  9. Place the chicken on top, skin down. Place the lid on the pot and cook on a low to medium heat for 35-40mins.
  10. Once the chicken is cooked, remove the chicken to rest and ladle out 200ml of the stock in to a bowl or jug.
  11. Add the cous cous to the separated stock, and leave to soak, fluffing up and separating with a fork after a couple mins.
  12. Turn the heat up on the pot with remaining stock to a high setting and reduce for 5mins.
  13. serve
  14. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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