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Safoi’s Moroccan Chicken Tagine

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A stew of chicken parts cooked with carrots lemon slices olives and more in the base of an earthenware pot with a...
Photo by Andrew Scrivani

Safoi has many beautiful tagines in her home in Michigan. A tagine is a cooking vessel used in many Moroccan recipes that's make of earthenware and has a domed top that returns all condensation to the food, keeping everything moist (genius!). It is perfect for slow-cooked foods. Stews and bone-in chicken dishes are created in this beautiful pot, and the flavor is unmatched. Meat falls off the bone and all the flavors marry together. If you invest in one, you may never use your slow cooker again.
Tagine is also the name of a type of dish commonly served in Morocco. A tagine is a slow-cooked savory and hearty stew that is made in the pot of the same name. If you already own a slow cooker you don't necessarily have to buy a tagine. But when I place my tagine on the stove and fire it up, I feel as if I've been transported to Morocco.

Cooks' Note

To make this recipe in a slow cooker, follow the directions through step 7, setting the slow cooker on high for 4 hours. Add the olives and lemon at the 3- hour-and-45-minute mark.

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