Lemon Tajine

Name: Lemon Tajine
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: Moroccan, African
Ingredients: •1 chicken; 1 cup sea salt (large grains) to clean the chicken; •2 tablespoons vinegar; • onion, grated; •4 cloves garlic, crushed; 1 handful fresh coriander, chopped + handful fresh parsley, chopped a pinch saffron pistils, crushed; •1 teaspoon ground ginger; •1 teaspoon ground black pepper; •½ Teaspoon Ras el hanout; •1/2 teaspoon ground cumin; 1 teaspoon turmeric; •1 handful olives; •1/2 preserved lemon; 4 tablespoons olive oil; •1/2tablespoon salt ( more or less depending on your preserved lemon if it's very salty or not)

7 steps

Prep:1h 30min

Updated at: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:28:42 GMT

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Ingredients

4 servings

1chicken

1 cupsea salt

large grains, to clean the chicken

2 tablespoonsvinegar

onion

grated

4 clovesgarlic

crushed

1 handfulfresh coriander

chopped

fresh parsley

1 teaspoonground ginger

1 teaspoonground black pepper

0.5 TeaspoonRas el hanout

½ teaspoonground cumin

1 teaspoonturmeric

1 handfulolives

0.5preserved lemon

4 tablespoonsolive oil

½ tablespoonsalt

more or less depending on your preserved lemon if it's very salty or not

Instructions

Step 1

1. Rinse the chicken Using the sea salt, pull apart the skin from the flesh, so that it can better absorb the marinade, and leave in water with vinegar for 15 min

Step 2

2. Put the grated onions, the garlic, the chopped coriander and parsley, the spices, the saffron and the flesh of the preserved lemon in a tajine (or stewpot) and mix well. Place the chicken in the marinade and cover all pieces with it.

Step 3

3. Add half cup of water. Cover and simmer gently for 30 mins. Turn and baste the chicken often. Once the meat is cooked (only when it can be pulled apart easily with the fingers) remove it from the pot and keep warm.

Step 4

4. Reduce the sauce at high heat to thick gravy

Step 5

5. Rinse the olives.

Step 6

6. Place the chicken pieces back into the tajine/pot.

Step 7

Place the olives and the preserved lemon strips on top of the tajine. Warm up the tajine.