Tagine/Tajine - Chicken With Carrots

By AngelaJanet

Found online and posted so I can find it again, this recipe comes from: http://www.tagines.com/chicken_carrots.cfm

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts (or legs and thighs, or a whole chicken cut up)
• 2 onions, chopped
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 pinch saffron thread
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 garlic clove, chopped
• black pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 lbs carrots, peeled & thickly sliced
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
• 1 tablespoon honey
• squeeze lemon juice

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 135mins
Adapted from food.com

Preparation

Step 1

Directions:

1 Cut the chicken breasts in half.

2 Place half the onions, chicken, garlic, ginger, pepper, salt, saffron and olive oil in the bottom of the tagine and mix thoroughly.

3 Add 1/2 a cup of water and set on low heat on the stove or 250 F in the oven.

4 Bring to a boil and slow simmer for 30 minutes.

5 Nicely arrange the remaining onion, carrots, 3 tbsp each of the parsley and cilantro, and then the honey.

6 Stir and continue simmering uncovered for 60 minutes more until the liquid is reduced to a thick sauce.

7 Stir in a generous squeeze of lemon juice.

8 Serve hot.