Tastes Like Chicken! Recipes
(From Chicken Recipes Compiled Since 1992)

Moroccan Chicken with Olives (Tajine B’Zeetoon)

Category: Main Dishes

Servings: 6

Description: Lemon sharpens the spicy sauce of this tagine, a Moroccan specialty.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 C snipped fresh cilantro
• 1 T paprika
• 2 t ground cumin
• 1/2 t salt
• 1/2 t ground turmeric
• 1/2 t ground ginger
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 3 to 3 1/2 lb broiler-fryer whole chicken, cut up
• 1/3 C flour
• 1/2 C water
• 1/4 C lemon juice
• 1 t instant chicken bouillon
• 1/2 C Kalamata or Greek olives
• 1 lemon, sliced

Instructions:

1. Mix together cilantro, paprika, cumin, salt, turmeric, ginger and garlic. Rub mixture on all sides of chicken. Coat with flour. Place chicken in ungreased 13x9x2-inch baking dish. Mix together water, lemon juice and bouillon. Pour over chicken. Add olives and lemon slices. Cook, uncovered, at 350F, spooning juices over chicken occasionally, until thickest pieces of chicken are done, about 1 hour. Serve with couscous or rice if desired.