Name: Chicken and Date Tagine with Cauliflower Couscous
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 500 ml/17 fl oz/2 cups chicken stock; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 garlic cloves, crushed; ½ tsp cayenne pepper; 1 cinnamon stick; 2 tbsp olive oil; ½ tsp ground turmeric; a pinch of saffron strands; 1 tbsp grated root ginger; 2 onions, finely chopped; 1 small bunch coriander/cilantro, chopped; juice of ½ lime; 30 g/1 oz/⅓ cup flaked/sliced almonds; 300 g/10½ oz/heaped 1⅔ cups pitted dates, preferably Medjool, roughly chopped; 800 g/1 lb 12 oz skinless, boneless chicken thigh fillets, halved; juice of 1 lime; 1 large cauliflower

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

In the Mood for Healthy Food

By Jo Pratt

Published 2015

About

After tucking into this you should be feeling full of energy. Dates are known to provide instant energy in the form of natural glucose and are also one of the best sources of potassium (containing up to three times more than bananas). They’re also full of dietary fibre, iron, vitamin A, magnesium and many B vitamins. Not bad for a wrinkly brown fruit. As for the extremely tasty couscous – well, it’s basically just blitzed up cauliflower that’s briefly sautéed and flavoured with lemon and co