Slow Cooker Chicken Marrakesh Recipes

Steps:

• Place the onion, garlic, carrots, sweet potatoes, garbanzo beans, and chicken breast pieces into a slow cooker. In a bowl, mix the cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, black pepper, parsley, and salt, and sprinkle over the chicken and vegetables. Pour in the tomatoes, and stir to combine.
• Cover the cooker, set to High, and cook until the sweet potatoes are tender and the sauce has thickened, 4 to 5 hours.

Steps:

• Place chicken in the bottom of a slow cooker. Add the garlic, onion, tomatoes, peaches, garbanzo beans, dried apricots, cumin, ginger, cinnamon, coriander, and cayenne pepper. Pour in the chicken broth. Cook on Low for 5 hours.
• Remove the chicken and keep warm. Mix the cornstarch and water in a small bowl. Stir the cornstarch mixture into the slow cooker. Cook on High until the sauce has thickened, about 15 minutes. Return the chicken to the slow cooker and heat through. Top with fresh cilantro and almonds before serving.

Steps:

• Heat a medium skillet, preferably cast-iron, over medium-high heat. Add the cumin seed and stir until aromatic, about 30 seconds. Turn off the heat, add the coriander seed, and stir for 30 seconds. Scrape the spices into a mortar with a pestle or into a spice grinder and grind until the cumin and coriander are coarsely ground. Mix with the flour, salt, and pepper in a medium large mixing bowl and dredge the chicken pieces in the seasoned flour mixture; pat off the excess flour and reserve the mixture.
• Heat the oil in an extra-large skillet over medium-high heat; brown the chicken pieces on both sides, in batches, about 3 minutes per side, then transfer to a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker.
• Reduce the heat under the skillet to medium. Add the onions and sauté until tender, about 2 minutes. Add the garlic and the reserved seasoned flour mixture and stir until the flour is lightly toasted, about 3 minutes. Add the wine and chicken broth and stir until the sauce is slightly thickened. Remove from the heat and stir in the lemon zest (but not the juice).
• Pour over the chicken and scatter the chopped preserved lemon over the top. Cover the cooker and cook for 2 to 3 hours on high, or 4 to 6 hours on low, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of one of the uppermost pieces of chicken registers 170°F. Keep warm for as long as 4 hours.
• Remove the chicken to a platter. Stir the lemon juice, parsley, and olives into the sauce, and spoon over the chicken.

Steps:

• Place carrots and onions in a greased 5-qt. slow cooker. Sprinkle chicken with salt; add to slow cooker. Top with apricots and raisins. In a small bowl, whisk broth, tomato paste, flour, lemon juice, garlic and seasonings until blended; add to slow cooker., Cook, covered, on low until chicken is tender, 6-7 hours. Serve with hot cooked couscous.

Steps:

• Place the onion, garlic, carrots, sweet potatoes, garbanzo beans, and chicken and vegetables. Pour in the tomatoes, and stir to combine.
• Cover the cooker, set to HIGH, and cook until the sweet potatoes are tender and the sauce has thickened, 4 to 5 hours.

Steps:

• Place chicken thighs in a large bowl or saucepan then add salt, garlic, ginger, cumin, pepper, bay leaves and smoked paprika.
• Mix chicken with a spoon or with hands until they are well coated, set aside in the fridge and marinate for 30 minutes.
• Place canned tomatoes in the slow cooker.
• When ready to cook heat up a skillet or large sauce pan with about 2 tablespoon oil, and then brown the chicken about 3-5 for about minutes until chicken is golden brown: remove and place in the crockpot. Drain any excess oil from the skillet.
• Add onions, garlic, smoked paprika, cumin, and coriander Add salt and cayenne pepper to taste. Stir for about 1 or 2 minutes for the flavors to come together and bloom. Then add to crockpot, deglaze pan with about ¾ cup of broth, and add to slow cooker, together with chickpeas and olives.
• Cover and cook on high for about 3-4 hours. Remove and serve with cous cous.

Steps:

• Place carrots and onions in a greased 5-qt. slow cooker. Sprinkle chicken with salt; add to slow cooker. Top with apricots and raisins.
• In a small bowl, whisk broth, tomato paste, flour, lemon juice, garlic and seasonings until blended; add to slow cooker.
• Cook, covered, on low until chicken is tender, 6-7 hours. Serve with hot cooked couscous.

Steps:

• Place the pickling spice in the center of a piece of cheesecloth or a coffee filter.
• Tie tightly with a long piece of string.
• Add onion to 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker.
• Place chicken in slow cooker.
• Combine flour, garlic salt, and turmeric.
• Sprinkle over chicken.
• Add pickling spice bundle, broth, tomatoes, dates and almonds to slow cooker.
• Cook on HIGH 4 hours, or on LOW 8 hours.
• Remove pickling spice bundle.
• Serve with couscous, if desired.