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Moroccan-spiced chicken & chickpea tagine with couscous
Chicken thighs braised with warm spices, tomato, carrot, chickpeas and sweet dried apricots, finished with lemon and herbs and served over fluffy couscous.
- 60 min · 20 min hands-on
- Serves 4
- Large deep frying pan or casserole with lid, heatproof bowl with a plate to cover, fork
- Contains wheat, gluten, coriander
- Complete meal
One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 44 g · 32%
- Carbs 70 g · 51%
- Fat 10 g · 17%
- Fibre 13 g
Highest in this recipe
Black shows one serve; the rest of each bar is left for the day. * Partial ingredient data.
Ingredients
Weights for 4 servings. Per-serve nutrition stays the same.
- 600 g
- 15 g
- 200 g
- 10 g
- 10 g
- 4 g
- 3 g
- 3 g
- 2 g
- 1 g
- 30 g
- 400 g
- 300 g
- 200 g
- 240 g
- 60 g
- 1 g
- 240 g
- 300 g
- 15 g
- 10 g
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Method
5 steps · about 60 min- Heat the olive oil in a large deep frying pan over medium-high heat. Brown the chicken for 3 minutes per side, then move to a plate.
- Reduce the heat to medium and cook the onions for 6–7 minutes until soft and golden. Add the garlic and ginger for 1 minute, then the cumin, coriander, paprika, cinnamon and turmeric for 30 seconds, and the tomato paste for 1 minute.
- Add the canned tomatoes, stock, carrots, chickpeas, dried apricots and iodised salt. Return the chicken, bring to a simmer, cover and cook gently for 25–30 minutes, stirring once or twice, until the carrots are tender and the chicken reaches 75°C and pulls apart easily.
- Meanwhile, put the couscous in a heatproof bowl, pour over the boiling water, cover with a plate and stand for 5 minutes, then fluff thoroughly with a fork.
- Take the tagine off the heat and stir in the lemon juice. Scatter with the herbs and serve over the couscous.
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One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 44 g · 32%
- Carbs 70 g · 51%
- Fat 10 g · 17%
- Fibre 13 g
Highest in this recipe
Black shows one serve; the rest of each bar is left for the day. * Partial ingredient data.
Calculation limitations
- Further heating in this recipe is not covered by the food record or a reviewed cooking factor. Reported contributions remain estimates.
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Editorially reviewed for ingredient-method agreement, flavour structure, moisture control, practical timings and food-safety cues. Compound products and cross-contact remain label-dependent.
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Calculation assumptions & recipe adaptations
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- Boneless skinless chicken thighs, raw, halved: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Olive oil: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Brown onions, sliced: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Garlic, crushed: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Fresh ginger, finely grated: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Ground cumin: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Ground coriander: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Paprika: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Ground cinnamon: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Ground turmeric: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Tomato paste, no added salt: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- No-added-salt canned tomatoes, undrained: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Reduced-salt chicken stock: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Carrots, cut into thick rounds: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Dried apricots, halved: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Iodised salt: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Couscous, uncooked: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Boiling water for the couscous: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Lemon juice: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Fresh coriander or parsley leaves: Whole-recipe edible weight.
AFCD attribution, data & methods
Food matches used for nutrition
- Boneless skinless chicken thighs, raw, halved: Chicken, thigh, lean flesh, raw
- Olive oil: Oil, olive
- Brown onions, sliced: Onion, mature, brown skinned, peeled, raw
- Garlic, crushed: Garlic, peeled, fresh, raw
- Fresh ginger, finely grated: Ginger, peeled, fresh, raw
- Ground cumin: Cumin (cummin) seed, dried, ground
- Ground coriander: Coriander seed, dried, ground
- Paprika: Paprika, dry powder
- Ground cinnamon: Cinnamon, dried, ground
- Ground turmeric: Turmeric, dried, ground
- Tomato paste, no added salt: Tomato, paste, no added salt
- No-added-salt canned tomatoes, undrained: Tomato, whole, canned in tomato juice, no added salt, undrained
- Reduced-salt chicken stock: Stock, liquid, all flavours, reduced salt, prepared
- Carrots, cut into thick rounds: Carrot, mature, peeled, fresh, raw
- Canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained: Chickpea, canned, drained
- Dried apricots, halved: Apricot, dried
- Iodised salt: Salt, table, iodised
- Couscous, uncooked: Couscous, uncooked
- Boiling water for the couscous: Water, tap
- Lemon juice: Juice, lemon
- Fresh coriander or parsley leaves: Coriander, fresh, raw