Hooverbag chicken (well, Moroccan chicken) (Poultry)

Member Name: clara29

Product:	Poultry
Date:	04/11/09 (58 review reads)
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Advantages: Filling, easy to make, super tasty

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I was sorting through my recipes recently and though that I haven't posted a recipe in a while so here is one of my favourite ways to enjoy a nice bit of chicken! My mum calls it Moroccan chicken. My husband on the other hand calls it Hooverbag chicken on account of the fact that "it looks like you have emptied the contents of a hooverbag"

But please don't let that put you off!! It looks and tastes gorgeous and he is totally unenlightened about these things! Nevertheless the name has stuck, so here is "Hooverbag Chicken"

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2 oz margerine
2 finely chopped onions
1 tbsp turmeric (careful it stains!)
1 ½ tsp ground cumin
1 ½ tsp ground coriander
1 ½ tsp paprika
1 tsp black pepper
2 whole chickens cut into 8 pieces
The juice of 1 lemon (I actually use the lemon rind cut into smallish pieces but that's optional)
8 fl oz (250 mls chicken stock)
125g dried apricots
1 tin chick peas, rinsed
2 tbsp flaked almonds
handful of fresh parsley

Method:

Melt the margerine in heavy pan over medium-low heat and add onion and all the spices.

Stir till onions very soft (for around 10 minutes on a low heat).

Add chicken pieces, lemon juice, stock, apricots and chick peas - bring to simmering point. *add the lemon rind if you are using at this point*

Cover and put in a preheated oven on 180 degrees (gas mark 4) for an hour and a half - 2 hours

Garnish with a handful of fresh parsley and 2 tbsp flaked toasted almonds.
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I like to serve this with a really fresh green salad - due to the chick peas it's quite a filling dish, but I'm sure a few potatoes wouldn't go a miss!

So there you go - hopefully a lot more enjoyable than an actual hooverbag :) x

Summary: tasty filling recipe