Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous
Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, moroccan chicken and cous cous. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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. Make ready 4 clove of garlic, crushed
  4. Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp turmeric
  6. Make ready 1 salt and pepper for seasoning
  7. Prepare Main dish
  8. Take 1 Aubergine paste (see above)
  9. Take 2 chicken drumsticks
  10. Take 2 chicken thighes
  11. Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil, 1 in a heat proof pot and the other in a food bag.
  12. Make ready 400 grams tinned chopped tomatoes
  13. Get 1 pepper, sliced
  14. Get 125 grams cous cous
  15. Get 500 ml chicken stock
  16. Prepare Main dish (Spices)
  17. Prepare 1 whole chilli pepper
  18. Prepare 1/2 grams cinnamon shard
  19. Make ready 1 tsp paprika
  20. Get 1 tsp cumin
Instructions 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

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