Moreish Moroccan Chicken Salad

Name: Moreish Moroccan Chicken Salad
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Morocco
Ingredients: salt and pepper to taste; juice of ½ lemon; seeds of 2 cardamon pods; 1 cup cooked brown rice; 4—6 chicken breast fillets; ½ cup plain yoghurt; 2 Tbsp roughly chopped pine nuts; 100 ml chicken stock; 1 tsp sumac powder; 2 pitted dates, chopped; ½ tsp turmeric; ¼ cup white wine vinegar; ½ tsp grated nutmeg; 2 Tbsp pomegranate arils; olive oil for frying; 3 stalks celery, chopped; 1 unpeeled red apple, chopped; 2 cups baby spinach leaves; 20 pistachio nuts, shelled and roughly chopped; ½ onion, chopped; ½ tsp crushed garlic

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

All Sorts of Healthy Dishes

By Chantal Lascaris

Published 2017

About

MOROCCO IS FAMOUS FOR ITS RICH SPICES AND FLAVOURFUL FOOD, AND THIS DISH IS A MIXTURE OF THESE TASTE SENSATIONS. THE CARDAMOM PROVIDES THE AROMA, TURMERIC THE COLOUR AND THE PISTACHIOS THE CRUNCH. THE CHICKEN’S FLAVOUR BALANCES PERFECTLY WITH THE SWEET, CHEWY DATES AND TART APPLES, WHILE THE POMEGRANATE PROVIDES THE FINISHING TOUCH.

Ingredients

olive oil for frying
½ onion, chopped
½ tsp crushed garlic
20

Africa
Morocco
Main course
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
In a pan, heat a little olive oil and sauté the onion and garlic until the onion is translucent.
Add all the nuts and rice to the onion and garlic mixture and sauté for another minute or so.
Stir in the ca