A Moroccan Slow Cooker Miracle!

Oh my word… My first slow cooker meal that tastes AMAZING! I actually borrowed the base recipe for this Moroccan chicken stew from http://shhhquietmummy.wordpress.com/ (go on, go check her out!) but due to various reasons changed things up a bit and added a few extras. I think the addition that has made the biggest difference in taste (not that I tasted the original, I’m just going by taste intuitions) is the harissa powder. I know that this isn’t widely available, but my brother went to Tunisia earlier this year and bought back a present for my mum of this huge bundle of different packages of spices – one of which was the harissa! I’ve been dying to use these spices ever since they entered the house, and have finally got around to it! So here it is:

This really is a slow cooker miracle – full of flavour and a perfect winter warmer with a bit of spice.

Ingredients:

• 1 onion, chopped into medium sized chunks
• 1 shallot, cut into similar sized pieces
• 4 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 2 carrots chopped into big chunks
• 1 large sweet potato, chopped into similar sized chunks to the carrots
• 1 yellow (or other colour – your choice!) bell pepper, similar sizes to other veg
• 350g chicken breast, cubed
• 1 tin of chopped tomatoes
• 1tbsp harissa powder (or paste, if you can’t find this)
• 1tbsp ground cumin
• 3tsp ground ginger
• 1tbsp coriander (I used frozen)
• 1 chicken stock pot
• 1/4 pint of boiling water
• Frylight

Method:

1. Prepare all the ingredients, spray the slow cooker pot a few times with frylight and chuck everything in.
2. Give it a big stir and cover.
3. Leave for 4 hours on high, or 6 on medium, or 8 on low, stirring once or twice (optional, I’m sure it’d be fine without stirring).
4. Serve with couscous or rice!

Let me know how you find it – I hope you find it as delicious as I do 🙂 Syn free on EE for Slimming World-ers.

Laura x