Chicken tagine with seven vegetables

Yield: 4 Servings

Ingredients:

3 1/2 lb Chicken
1 tb Olive oil
1 3/4 lb Eggplant
2 tb Olive oil
1 c Onions chopped
3 Garlic cloves crushed
3 c Stock chicken
1 1/2 Cinnamon sticks
1 ts Curry powder
1 ts Cumin ground
1/4 ts Turmeric
1/4 ts Black pepper
1 Turnips
1 md Zucchini
1 Carrots
1/2 Bell peppers red
3 md Tomatoes
1/2 c Raisins
1 tb Parsley

Instructions:

Cut chicken into serving pieces. Remove backs and wings and save for soup. Remove all skin and fat from chicken. Heat oil in large frying pan; saute chicken in 2 batches until opaque on both sides (a few minutes). Set aside. Cut unpeeled eggplant into 1" cubes; salt for 20 minutes then drain and rinse. Heat oil in 6-8-qt Dutch oven. Add onion garlic and eggplant. Saute over low heat until onion is just tender 5-10 minutes. Add stock cinnamon curry powder cumin turmeric and black pepper. Stir bring to boil reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes. Peel turnip; dice turnip zucchini carrot and bell pepper. Add dark meat and diced vegetables to Dutch oven. Simmer uncovered 10 minutes. Dice tomatoes. Add chicken breasts tomato raisins and parsley pushing down lightly to be sure ingredients are covered by liquid. Simmer covered for 10 minutes more. Serve hot in deep soup bowls on top of rice noodles or couscous garnishing top with coriander. Sylvia's notes: I used a whole chicken and dumped everything in the crockpot which worked fine except that the vegetables weren't done (since it cooked about 6 hours instead of the usual 10 when I use the cp on a workday) so I boiled the vegetables in the stock until they were soft. However I was not pleased with the result and I think it was the combination of flavors (or lack thereof) rather than the cooking method. The chicken was fine and the broth was delicious but the vegetables were tasteless cardboard. Source: _The Frugal Gourmet On Our Immigrant Ancestors_ Posted on genie c02 t13 m236 by J.BOLLER [JacquieB] 8/7/92 MM by C.SVITEK [cathy] From the recipe files of Sylvia Steiger GEnie THE.STEIGERS CI$ 71511 2253 GT Cookbook echo moderator net/node 004/005