Chicken kadra with Chickpeas, red peppers and raisins
| Chicken kadra with Chickpeas, red peppers and raisins | |
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| Servings: | Serves 6 |
| Ready in: | 1 day, 4 hours |
| Prep. time: | 1 day |
| Cook time: | 4 hours |
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This recipe needs advance preparation!
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, a casserole on a low oven or even on the hob would do just as well.
Unless you are using canned chick-peas, you will need to soak the chick peas overnight.
Ingredients
Ingredients
Printable 🖨 shopping 🛒 list & 👩🍳 method for this recipe
- 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 onions, peeled and chopped
- 2 pinches of saffron
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- Chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons smen or ghee
- 2 red peppers, roasted, deseeded and slices, see here
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 tablespoon chopped dried fruit ; raisins, sultanas, apricots, prunes
to serve
- lots of freshly chopped parsley
- Toasted almond flakes
- Lemon wedged
- Crusty bread 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, 3 tablespoons of the chopped onions, the saffron strands, cinnamon sticks, salt and pepper.
- Add enough chicken stock to cover the chicken by about 2.5 cm (1 inch)
- Stir well and cook, covered for a 3 hours on a high setting
- After 2 hours, add the remaining onions, dried fruit, smen or ghee together with half of the parsley and half of the red pepper slices.
- Cook for a further hour
Serving suggestions
Serve, scattered with the toasted almonds and the remaining parsley and red pepper slices. Accompany with the lemon wedges.
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, I thought it worth a try, especially as this recipe is slow cooked with enough spices to liven up turkey which can sometimes be a little bland.