Recipe of Perfect Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous

Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook moroccan chicken and cous cous using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients requirements Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous:

1. Give for Aubergine Paste (this can be made in advance and chilled).
2. You need 1 of Aubergine.
3. Require 4 clove of garlic, crushed.
4. Need 1 tbsp for olive oil.
5. Prepare 1 tbsp of turmeric.
6. Need 1 salt and pepper for seasoning.
7. Provide Main dish.
8. Provide 1 - Aubergine paste (see above).
9. Prepare 2 - chicken drumsticks.
10. Prepare 2 - chicken thighes.
11. Require 2 tbsp - olive oil, 1 in a heat proof pot and the other in a food bag..
12. Require 400 grams for tinned chopped tomatoes.
13. Require 1 pepper, sliced.
14. Provide 125 grams cous cous.
15. Prepare 500 ml for chicken stock.
16. Require for Main dish (Spices).
17. You need 1 for whole chilli pepper.
18. Provide 1/2 grams of cinnamon shard.
19. Require 1 tsp paprika.
20. Require 1 tsp - cumin.

Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous making:

1. For the paste : pre-heat the oven to 190°C / 170°C fan. Pierce the outer skin of the aubergine, place in the oven and bake for 40-50mins. Once removed from the oven, open up and scoop out the insides and mush up. Add the rest of the paste ingredients and mix together. You can store this in the fridge and use later or use straight away..
2. Place the chicken in the food bag, add some salt and pepper, seal the bag and toss the chicken to cover in the oil..
3. Heat the oil in the pot. Add the spices for 20seconds..
4. Add the chicken and lightly brown. Once browned remove..
5. Add the pepper and cook for 1min..
6. Add the paste and cook for 1min..
7. Add the tomatoes and cook for 2mins..
8. Add the stock, scraping the bottom of the pot to deglaze..
9. Place the chicken on top, skin down. Place the lid on the pot and cook on a low to medium heat for 35-40mins..
10. Once the chicken is cooked, remove the chicken to rest and ladle out 200ml of the stock in to a bowl or jug..
11. Add the cous cous to the separated stock, and leave to soak, fluffing up and separating with a fork after a couple mins..
12. Turn the heat up on the pot with remaining stock to a high setting and reduce for 5mins..
13. serve.

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