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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Northern Africa >> Moroccan

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. For sugared walnuts: Melt 1 T butter in a small saucepan and cook the walnuts over low heat until they are a shade darker and fragrant. Set aside to cool. When cool, remove from the pan into a bowl (leaving behind any remaining butter) and toss with the 1 T sugar. Set aside. | 2. In the tagine cooking vessel (or a broad saucepan with a cover, large enough to comfortably fit all 4 chicken thighs at once), heat 1 T olive oil over medium-high heat until hot. Salt and pepper the chicken thighs on both sides and sear until just golden brown, but not cooked through. Set them aside. The thighs will have rendered some fat; remove enough fat to leave only 1 T fat in the pan. Lower the heat to medium and saute the onion until translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic, cumin, coriander, cayenne, cinnamon, and ginger and continue to saute until the garlic is softened and the spices are toasted, about 2 minutes. | 3. Add the cider, chicken broth, and honey and bring to a boil. (Note: If you are using a tagine cooking vessel, add only half the liquid to begin with, then add the remaining liquid halfway through cooking time. Generally, a tagine is not large enough to accommodate all the cooking liquid at once.). | 4. Boil the liquid for about 5 minutes, until liquid has reduced slightly. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 375 degrees. To the broth mixture, add the sweet potato, half of the chickpeas and half of the dates. Nestle the chicken thighs in the pan and toss the remaining dates and chickpeas over the top. Cover the vessel and place it in the 375-degree oven for 50 minutes to 1 hour, until the sweet potato and chicken thighs are cooked though. (Note: If you are using a regular pan, baste the dish every 15 minutes or so. If using a tagine, add the second half of the cooking liquid halfway through cooking time, when some liquid has steamed away). | 5. When cooked, remove from the oven and taste for seasoning. Add more salt, pepper, or honey as desired. Serve over cous-cous with sugared walnuts and yogurt on the side. (Note: for extra richness, you can stir 1 T butter into the broth until melted and the broth is shiny). | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
walnut half	1	cup		-	-	-	-
butter	1	tablespoon		85.5	3.9285	2.6715	7.2
sugar	1	tablespoon		55.062	13.7724	0.0	0.0
plain yogurt	8	ounces		149.6853	21.9765	5.9874	3.9916
chicken thigh	4			7972.8	14.3148	173.5896	801.4476
olive oil	1	tablespoon		119.34	0.0	0.0	13.5
salt pepper				-	-	-	-
onion	1		peeled chopped	44.0	10.274000000000001	1.21	0.11
garlic clove	2		peeled minced	-	-	-	-
cumin	1/4	teaspoon		1.9688	0.2323	0.0935	0.1169
coriander	1/4	teaspoon	ground	1.341	0.2475	0.0557	0.08
cayenne pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.431	0.2548	0.054000000000000006	0.0777
cinnamon	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
ginger	1/2	teaspoon	ground	0.8	0.1777	0.0182	0.0075
chicken stock	1	cup		86.4	8.472000000000001	6.047999999999999	2.88
honey	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
apple cider	1	cup		-	-	-	-
potato	1		peeled chopped sweet	-	-	-	-
chickpea	1	can		1133.4333	188.7556	61.3793	18.1109
date	1	cup	pitted cut	414.54	110.2941	3.6015	0.5733

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.