Chicken & date tagine recipe

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The dates and squash give this dish a lovely savoury/sweet flavour, a Moroccan sweet and sour

Easy
Serves 4
Ready in 1½ hours

Ingredients

8 chicken thighs , on the bone, skin on
1 small butternut squash , peeled and cut into chunks
1 red onion , cut into wedges
fresh chicken stock , cube or concentrate, made up to 300ml
400g tin cherry tomatoes
1 cinnamon stick
8 Medjool dates , halved
coriander leaves from a large bunch

SPICE PASTE

1 small red onion , roughly chopped
2 garlic cloves , roughly chopped
thumb sized piece root ginger , roughly chopped
1 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp mild chilli powder
coriander roots, from a large bunch
1 lemon , zested and juiced
olive oil

Method

Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Put all the spice paste ingredients in a small food processor with 2 tbsp olive oil and whizz to a paste.

Brown the chicken thighs all over in a tagine or large, wide pan. Scoop out then add the spice paste and cook for a few minutes until fragrant. Add the squash, onion, stock, tomatoes and cinnamon and stir. Sit the chicken on top (push down a bit into the sauce). Cook uncovered in the oven for 1 hour - the chicken should be browned and cooked and the sauce reduced. Add the dates for the last 20 minutes of cooking. Scatter with coriander and serve with buttered couscous.

Nutrition per serving

952 kcalories, protein 63.3g, carbohydrate 47.2g, fat 57.4 g, saturated fat 15.7g, fibre 5.5g, salt 1.34 g

Recipe from olive magazine, November 2007.

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