Chicken kadra with Chickpeas, peppers and onions (slow cooker recipe)
This recipe requires preparation in advance!
Typical of a lot of North African recipes, this is a fruity and spicy dish with lots of onions, but not necessarily hot.
If you don't have a slow cooker, we have a cooker top version of the same recipe.
Unless you are using canned chick-peas, you will need to soak the chick peas overnight.
Chicken kadra with Chickpeas, peppers and onions (slow cooker recipe) | |
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Servings: | Serves 6 |
Calories per serving: | 358 |
Ready in: | 1 day, 8 hours |
Prep. time: | 1 day |
Cook time: | 8 hours |
Difficulty: | ![]() |
Recipe author: | JuliaBalbilla |
First published: | 23rd June 2014 |
Best recipe reviewLooks odd with new potatoes 4/5 Can't be for Christmas then? |
Ingredients
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- 1 chicken cut into about 6 pieces, it's very easy to do, see here
- 175g of dried chick peas, soaked overnight in cold water, well rinsed and drained
- 6 medium onions, peeled and chopped. About 450g when chopped. A food processor is ideal for this task!
- 2 pinches of saffron
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1 fresh bay leaf
- A pinch of mixed herbs
- A pinch of chilli flakes
- Half a teaspoon of chilli flakes
- 850 ml (1.5 pints) of Chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons smen or ghee
- 2 red peppers, roasted, deseeded and slices, see here
- Half a 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 tablespoons of chopped dried fruit ; raisins, sultanas, apricots, prunes
to serve

- lots of freshly chopped parsley
- Toasted almond flakes
- Lemon wedges
- Crusty bread, boiled potatoes or buttery cous-cous
Mise en place
- Roast, skin and deseed the red peppers and slice thinly
- Separate the chicken into 6 pieces, discard the skin
Method
- To the slow cooker, add the chicken pieces, the soaked and drained chick peas, half of the chopped onions, the saffron strands, cinnamon sticks, salt and pepper, mixed herbs, turmeric and chilli flakes.
- Add the chicken stock
- Stir well and cook, covered for a 8 hours on low.
- When there is a few hours left, add the remaining onions, dried fruit, smen or ghee together with half of the chopped parsley and half of the sweet pepper slices.
- Cook for a further 2 hours.
Serving suggestions
Serve, scattered with the toasted almonds and the remaining parsley and red pepper slices. Accompany with the lemon wedges.
This goes well boiled potatoes, crusty bread or buttery cous-cous
Chef's notes
The cost of a whole chicken from Morrisons was nine pounds which seems ridiculous for a supermarket chicken [June 2014]. Next to the chickens was a huge whole turkey leg (in two pieces), weighing in at 1.4 kg. For less than half the price of a chicken.
Using the whole turkey leg, I amended the recipe slightly to my personal tastes. I also added a bay leaf, half a teaspoon of turmeric, a pinch of mixed herbs and some chilli flakes at the start, and reduced the ground pepper to just a good pinch. I've skinned the legs and cut 6 deep slashes right down to the bone so they cook evenly. I added 700ml (1.5 pints) of chicken stock, which did not cover the turkey legs, but they will still cook perfectly well, especially if you turn them at the final hour. I've roasted a whole chicken in a slow cooker and it was perfectly cooked (8 hours on low).
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