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.

Chicken And Dumplings

Chicken and Dumplings
A Recipe That's Warm And Comforting For The Fall
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients
3 cups of cooked chicken, breast, thigh meat
1 cup red potatoes, chopped
1 cup carrots, sliced
1 onion, chopped
1 cup celery, chopped
1 cup frozen corn (optional)
3 tbsp flour
3 cups chicken broth
2 cups of milk
salt
pepper
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp garlic powder
3 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp unsalted butter

Dumpling
Ingredients
2 cups bisquick
1 cup milk

Directions
Sauté all the vegetables in olive oil and butter until tender, sprinkle flour until well incorporated, slowly add broth and milk until it starts thicken.  Add cooked chicken; add seasonings to taste, simmer.  In a separate bowl; add Bisquick and milk and mix (should look like sticky biscuit dough).  Add dollops of dough onto the chicken mixture, cover and simmer for 20 min until dumpling rise like a pillow.
4 servings