Cooking Recipe Chicken Tagine With Lemons

Recipe Ingredients

2 tb Warm water

1 pn Saffron threads -- see note

3 lb Chicken -- cut into pieces

2 tb Virgin olive oil

2 ts Margarine -- or butter

1 1/2 c Lowfat chicken broth

1 sm Onion

2 ts Garlic -- finely chopped

1 ts Fresh ginger -- finely

Chopped

1 ts Salt -- or less

8 lg Black olives -- see note

1 Lemon zest -- fine

Julliened

1 Lemon slices -- cut 1/4"

Thick

Directions

PREPARATION (15 minutes) - Place the water in a small bowl, add the
saffron and soak for 10 minutes. - Remove the skin from the SIX
chicken pieces (no wings in the photo!)

COOKING (1 hour) - Place the chicken, oil, margarine, broth,
onion, garlic, ginger and salt in a large saucepan, cover and bring
to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to low and cook,
occasionally spooning the liquid over the chicken, until it is cooked
through and the juices run clear when the chicken is tested with a
skewer, about 40 to 45 minutes. Remove the onion and discard. - Add
the olives (see note) and lemon zest to the saucepan and simmer,
uncovered, for an additionl 5 minutes. - Place the chicken in a deep
serving dish, pour the cooking juices on top and garnish with the
fresh lemon slices; OR arrange the chicken over a bed of plain
couscous. ( approx. 219 Cal | 9 g fat )

Recipe By : World's Finest: Chicken (1996)

Categories matching this recipe

Chicken ,Morocco