Lemon and Olive Chicken Tajine

This tajine is inspired by the Maison Arabe Cooking School, where I spent a day learning the ropes of Moroccan cooking under the watchful guidance of Mohammed and Aziza, the dada (cook). This particular combination would have to be the most well known of all the Moroccan tajines, but the flavours also work very well with lamb. Eating it at a table under an enormous fig tree with perfect blue skies above made the flavours sing like the sunshine. In Morocco cooks use smen, an aged butter made