Chicken Tagine With Apricots & Dates

Chicken Tagine With Apricots & Dates
Cooking In A Tagine Creates A Very Moist And Flavorful Stew!
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 1 hour

 

Ingredients
5-6 chicken parts (breast, legs, thigh, ext.)
1/2 cup cilantro leaves
1 cup large pitted black olives
1 cup dried apricots
1 cup pitted dates
1/2 cup almond slivers
2 clove garlic, sliced
2 tbsp honey or Agave syrup
2 tsp curry powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tbsp Ghee (clarified butter)
1 cinnamon stick
olive oil for drizzle

Cooking Tools
Tagine
Skillet

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 Degrees F.  Evenly coat raw chicken with curry powder, cinnamon. salt and pepper.  In  a skillet on high heat, melt the ghee and add the chicken to sear until brown on all sides.  Add seared chicken to the bottom of the Tagine and then layer apricots, dates, garlic, black olives, almonds, cilantro and cinnamon stick.  Drizzle on honey and olive oil on top of the ingredients.  Place Tagine lid on top and cook in oven for 45-50 minutes.  Serve with some Couscous.
Serves 2

Right Out Of The Oven, Serve From The Tagine With Some Couscous.