{"id":95649,"date":"2017-11-20T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T21:42:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T21:42:29","slug":"saffron-chicken-in-crock-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/20\/saffron-chicken-in-crock-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Saffron chicken in crock-pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #ff00af; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;\">\n<div class=\"post-header-line-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\" id=\"post-body-1953639197033421852\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #636363; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 536px;\"><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"flickr-embed-frame\" data-loaded=\"true\" data-natural-height=\"500\" data-natural-width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"height: 500px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px; width: 500px;\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I bought myself a cookbook (or five) for christmas. This one is called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Better-Homes-Gardens-Didnt-Cooker\/dp\/0544569814\" style=\"color: #636363; text-decoration-line: none;\">I didn&#8217;t know my slow-cooker could do that<\/a>&#8221; and it&#8217;s full of weird recipes that you might not normally make in a crock-pot. And a few really useful ones, as it turns out. I was immediately drawn to one that was called &#8220;Moroccan Tagine-Style Chicken Thighs&#8221; and though this isn&#8217;t that, it&#8217;s heavily inspired by it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Saffron chicken in crock-pot<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Serves 4<\/div>\n<div>1 kg boneless chicken thighs, skinned<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Marinade:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>3 tbsp olive oil<\/div>\n<div>2 tbsp water<\/div>\n<div>4 garlic cloves, minced<\/div>\n<div>1 tsp ground cumin<\/div>\n<div>1 tsp ground cardamom<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;good pinch of chili flakes<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Next:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>about 15 dried apricots, quartered<\/div>\n<div>400 ml water or chicken stock<\/div>\n<div>1\/2 g saffron<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>salt and pepper to taste<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To serve:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>cooked cous cous<\/div>\n<div>fresh cilantro<\/div>\n<div>Creme fraiche or sour cream<\/div>\n<div>toasted almonds<\/div>\n<div>raw red onions thinly sliced<\/div>\n<div>Cooked sliced carrots (my favorite way is to thinly slice, then cook in a tight-lidded container in the microwave until soft, then add a little butter and salt)&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Start by mixing the marinade. Add this and the chicken thighs to a plastic bag, massage well to distribute the marinade and then place in the fridge over night.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the morning, tip the entire bag into your crockpot. Add water or chicken stock, the apricots and the saffron. A little salt and pepper if you&#8217;d like, but you can always add that at the end. Give it a good stir, and then put your crock-pot on low for about eight hours. (I usually do half an hour on high just to give things a start, but that&#8217;s not strictly necessary.)&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When you&#8217;re ready for dinner, prepare all the sides and then taste the stew for seasoning. And that&#8217;s all, folks!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought myself a cookbook (or five) for christmas. This one is called &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know my slow-cooker could do that&#8221; and it&#8217;s full of weird recipes that you might not normally make in a crock-pot. And a few really useful ones, as it turns out. I was immediately drawn to one that was called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}