Moroccan Baked Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 cup white basmati rice
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 1 brinjal, cubed
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger, grated
- 3 tsp ground cumin
- 2 tbsp Guru chilli relish
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 oranges: zest and juice
- 8 chicken thighs
- 1 cup medjool dates, chopped
- 2 1/2 cups chicken stock
- olive oil
- Himalayan salt
- 250g feta cheese cubes or fried haloumi strips
- 1/3 cup pistachio nuts, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C.
- Add rice into a baking dish and carefully place the chicken thighs, skin-side-up, on top of the rice.
- Add in all of the other ingredients APART from the olive oil, feta and pistachios.
- Mix all, and also rub the mix into the chicken skin.
- Drizzle the chicken with olive oil and sprinkle with salt.
- Cook for 40 minutes.
- Remove the dish from the oven and crumble the feta on top of the chicken and bake for the last 20 minutes or until the skin is crispy.
