Chicken Tagine with Saffron Pearl Couscous

Chicken Tagine with Saffron Pearl Couscous

Ready in 35 minutes Serves 2-3
This dish most recently appeared in My Gourmet (4 Nights For 2) on Sunday, August 13, 2017.

Classic Tagine


Ingredients

CHICKEN TAGINE

  • ½ brown onion, finely diced
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon tagine spice
  • 350g chicken thighs, sliced into 1cm-thick strips
  • ½ can chopped tomatoes
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tablespoon runny honey
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 courgette
  • ½ bag baby spinach leaves

SAFFRON PEARL COUSCOUS

  • 1 pottle powdered saffron
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup pearl couscous
  • 1 tablespoon sumac pistachio blend
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice

HONEY YOGHURT

  • 3 tablespoons natural yoghurt
  • 1 teaspoon runny honey
  • Zest of ½ lemon

TO SERVE

  • 2 tablespoons sliced almonds (optional)
  • 2 tablespoons picked parsley leaves
  • ½ tablespoon sumac pistachio blend

Steps

  1. a small pot of water to the boil.
  2. Heat a drizzle of oil in a medium fry-pan on medium heat. Cook onion and garlic for about 2 minutes, until softened. Add tagine spice mix and cook, stirring continuously, for about 1 minute, until fragrant.
  3. Add chicken to pan and cook for about 1 minute, stirring until coated in spices. Add tomatoes, water, honey and salt to pan and mix well. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to low and cook for about 20 minutes, until thickened and reduced.
  4. Cut courgette in half lengthways and slice 1cm on an angle. Thinly slice spinach. When tagine has 10 minutes cook time remaining, add saffron, salt and couscous to pot of boiling water and cook for 6-8 minutes, until just tender. Drain couscous well, return to pot (off heat) and set aside.
  5. When tagine has 2 minutes cook time remaining, add courgette and cook for remaining 2 minutes until tender. Remove from heat and add spinach. Stir through until wilted and season with salt and pepper.
  6. In a small bowl combine all honey yoghurt ingredients and set aside. Add first measure of sumac pistachio blend, olive oil and lemon juice to couscous and fold through. Season with pepper.
  7. spoon saffron pearl couscous onto one side of each bowl, place chicken tagine next to couscous and dollop with honey yoghurt. Top with almonds and parsley and sprinkle over remaining sumac pistachio blend.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2696 kj
644 kcal
Protein 34.6g
Carbohydrate 57.3g
Fat 29.4g