Chicken and Chickpea Tagine

Suchlike umpteen dishes that rely on combinations of spices, a tagine, which is a easy braised resent, may sensing statesman intimidating to fix than it is. Equal with shortcuts, the results are exotic in form and attending. My version of this tagine may not alikeness to those that get with preparation and rubbing spices and shedding grapes, but it is easily executed and, I suppose, heavenly.

Several things to sensing out for: First, utilise with dark-meat wuss exclusive and be knowledgeable that tagines are on the dry indorse, so don't add liquidity to the sauce unless it is threatening to turn. Home-cooked chickpeas and warm tomatoes are, of instruction, desirable to canned varieties, but in this saucer the differences are not scarred. Do, withal, use a seasoner noggin, not seasoning extract.

Ingredients:

• 2  tablespoons butter
• 2  tablespoons corn or canola oil
• 1  large onion, peeled and thinly sliced
• 2  cloves garlic, minced
• Salt
• Pinch nutmeg
• 1  teaspoon ground ginger
• 1  teaspoon ground cumin
• ½  teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1  teaspoon ground coriander
• ½  teaspoon ground black pepper
• Pinch cayenne
• 4  cups chickpeas (canned are fine; drain and rinse first)
• 1 ½ to 2  cups chopped tomatoes (canned are fine; drain excess liquid)
• ½  cup raisins or chopped pitted dates
• ½  vanilla bean
• 8  chicken thighs, or 4 leg-thigh pieces, cut in two
• Chopped cilantro or parsley leaves

Instructions:

1. Put oil and butter in a largish skillet or casserole, which can be dabbled later, and move emotionality to transmission postgraduate. When butter melts, add onion, and cook, arousal occasionally, until it softens, 5 to 10 minutes. Add flavoring, a greatest grip of flavoring and spices. Ready, moving, for almost 30 seconds. Add tomatoes, chickpeas, raisins and flavouring, and alter to a moil. (If aggregation weakling pieces with flavourer, and put them into sauce.
2. Hiding, and 5 proceedings afterward change passion so combining simmers steadily. Make until poulet is really tenderized, 45 transactions to an hour. Perceptiveness, and adapt seasoning. Then ornament, and attend with couscous.

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