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RCI-MT.006.0695.001

M'qalli Chicken with Olives

M'qalli Chicken with Olives from the Recidemia collection

Prep15 min
Cook30 min
Total45 min
Servings4
Difficultyintermediate

Ingredients

  • chickens
    2 unit
  • onions cut into slides
    3 unit
  • crushed cloves of garlic
    3 unit
  • coffee spoonful of ginger
    1 unit
  • A little bit of saffron
    1 unit
  • soup spoonful of lemon juice
    1 unit
  • Salt
    1 unit
  • glass of water
    1 unit
  • preserved lemons cut into slides
    2 unit
  • preserved green olives
    10 unit

Method

1
Clean and drain the chicken, salt it, leave it for 2 hours, then clean and drain it again.
2
Cook it in a pressure cooker with onions, garlic, saffron, ginger, lemon juice, salt and water, mix and cover, then cook on a middle fire, till the chicken is almost cooked, add lemon slides, olives and cook for 5 mn on a little fire.
3
Present the chicken in complete, watered with sauce and decorated with olives and preserved lemon slides.