Linda’s Moroccan Chicken Tagine with Preserved Lemons

Recipes
Written By Linda Secondari

Ingredients

  • 10 cloves garlic smashed

  • 1⁄4 teaspoon saffron threads, pulverized

  • 1⁄2 teaspoon ground or fresh ginger

  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika

  • 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin

  • 1⁄2 teaspoon turmeric

  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

  • 10 chicken thighs with bone, skin removed

  • 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

  • 1 cinnamon stick

  • 1⁄2 cup calamata olives, pitted

  • 1⁄2 cup green olives, pitted

  • 2 lemons (ideally Meyer) cut into quarters

  • 1 preserved lemons (sold in specialty food shops) sliced

    into 4 rounds and then cut into quarters

  • 1 big bag of Baby spinach

 
 
 

Directions

  • In a large mixing bowl, mix garlic, fresh lemon and preserved lemon, saffron, ginger, paprika, cumin, and turmeric together. Salt and pepper the chicken and add it to the bowl. Rub chicken with mixture, cover, refrigerate and marinate 3 to 4 hours.

  • Pour chicken and mixture into a large Dutch oven or tagine. Scatter olives over the chicken. Tuck the chicken pieces so that they lay in one row and are covering garlic pieces, lemon wedges, or olives.

For traditional oven: turn oven to 450° F, cover the Dutch oven and put in the oven cold. After 45-60 minutes, remove from heat, check the chicken to see that it is well done (falling off the bone). Turn on broiler and return to oven for 3 minutes to color up the chicken.

For wood burning stove: heat the stove to 300° F (range) add covered Dutch oven to stove and allow it to cook slowly for 1.5 – 2 hours. Check every 45 minutes to see that it is progressing well. Once the chicken is done remove from oven and serve.

To serve: Scatter baby spinach in a large serving platter, spoon the chicken, olives, and broth on the spinach. Serve with good French baguette to sop up the tasty broth!

Yield: 4-5 servings

 

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Linda Secondari

I’ve spent more years than I care to mention honing my skills at preeminent academic publishers. As the Creative Director for both Oxford University Press and Columbia University Press, and Art Director for Russek Advertising (where clients included Shakespeare in the Park and John Leguizamo), I felt the call to take what I’d learned and what I’d done and start my own design studio (or studiolo).

Using intelligent design strategy and inspiring design solutions, I believe we can improve the world through better communication. I’ve been fortunate to do that for independent authors, major publishers, NGOs, educational institutions, nonprofits and think tanks. And while the industries might be varied, the one unifier is a desire to reach their audience and get their big ideas noticed.

Whether I’m cooking up a batch of puttanesca or helping an organization rethink their look, message and go-to-market strategy, I always strive to create an end result that wows.

My clients often remark how I interpret what they need from what they say and that I’m the calm voice of reason in their often frenetic industry. (must be all that meditating.)

If you have a project that could use some transformation, let’s turn the page together.

 

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