Moroccan cuisine often calls for a tagine, which is a unique cooking utensil that is used to slowly cook chicken and other proteins. Instead of using a tagine in this recipe, use a crock pot.
Moroccan Chicken Tagine
Servings
4 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 Spanish onion diced
- 4 cloves garlic crushed
- Salt and pepper
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 2 teaspoon turmeric
- 2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 pack chicken cut into eights
- ½ cup pitted olives or apricots
- 1 lemon cut into four wedges
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- 1½ cups water
- 1 cup quinoa
Instructions
- Preheat crock pot. In a saute pan, sauté onions and garlic in a little neutral oil until translucent.
- Add salt, pepper, paprika, cumin, turmeric, and ginger and sauté for one minute.
- Place onion and spice mixture in preheated crock pot. Top with chicken, olives, lemons, honey and can of diced tomato.
- Cook on high for a half hour and then on low for another hour.
- In a separate small pot, bring water to a boil, add quinoa, simmer covered for fifteen minutes. Fluff and serve with chicken.
Looks like the recipe is not complete. Is the quinoa cooked separately? How many hours in the crockpot? Please finish the recipe.
These are not timings for a crockpot. A crockpot is essentially a slow cooker – and even in describing the method you indicate to start early. Please update the recipe with accurate timings which IMHO are either 3-4 hours on high or 6-8 hours on low.
Have you ever baked the chicken just thought about doing it that way?
Thats great (or not) 🙂
I made this last shabbat and hoped to have leftovers for sunday. NOT A CHANCE!! It was amazing and my kids asked me to make it again this week.
This recipe is for a tagine style dish and could be cooked in a tagine. Not everyone has one so we showed how it could be made other ways.
yes, for 2 1/2 hours. the quinoa is cooked separately
Can I cook this on the fire in a pot? if so, for how long?
Is the Quinoa cooked in a separate pot or added to the chicken?
Sorry to be misleading, try this one http://www.joyofkosher.com/recipes/orange-apricot-chicken-tagine/
This recipe has tangine in the title. There is is picture of a tagine online. The directions are for a crockpot. What? I bought a tagine and was looking for recipes…I
Im glad it cam out good. Its possible the crock pot im using has a really good high setting as it did cook in 1 1/2 hours but if you see it isnt doing so adjusting the time accordingly is the right way to go.
I made this recipe for Shabbat, and it was much loved.
However, I had quite a problem with the crock pot directions, which had a total cook time of 1 and 1/2 hours. At the end of that period, the chicken was hardly hot, and I had to remove it from the crock pot and bake it in my roasting pan for it to be done by half hour before Shabbat. I have never seen a crock pot recipe that calls for such a short cooking period, Was it a typo?
Anyway, the recipe itself was terrific. I will make it again and adjust the cooking time to my usual chicken cooking time. Thanks for a nice change in Shabbat menus.
Sorry about that – when you add the chicken
How about the honey? When should I use it?
if cooked on high it works though the longer you leave it (you may want to put it on low) the more the flavor intensifies.
Recipe sounds great, but I don’t see how 8 pieces of bone-in chicken could reach the proper temp. in 1-1/2 hours cooking in a crock pot?
better to cook it separately
If I’m making this recipe in crockpot can I cook quinua in crockpot also or needs to be cooked seperately?
yes – a 9×13 in a 350 oven for 3 hours should work
yes it would work, just cook it as directed on the package
I am going to use a regular pan, should I just cook longer
I’d love to make this! Would couscous work instead of quinoa,and if so, what variation (if any) to the recipe directions would be necessary?
You’re welcome 🙂
What size canned diced tomatoes?
What do you mean by a “pack” of chicken? How many pounds would that be?
Thanks.
1 regular chicken cut into 8 or you can use 4 bottoms. small can of diced tomatos
let us know how it comes out 🙂
This article tells not only for how to prepare and also how much time need for preparation. Thank you so much for sharing such a tasty and quick recipe.
Looks good must try next shabbes