{"slug":"moroccan-chicken-stew-with-cous-cous","collection":"recipes","is_recipe":true,"visibility":"public","title":"Morrocan Chicken Stew with Cous-Cous","description":"A slow-simmered Moroccan chicken stew with dried apricots, potatoes, and warm Provençal spices, served over fluffy couscous for a deeply satisfying winter meal.","body_md":"\nThis recipe is perfect for a cold winter night. The warm spices of south\nFrance and Spain combine to flavor this slow cooking dish. If you don't\nhave any spices from a Provençal market, my **Moroccan Seasoning** recipe is a very solid\nstand-in.\n\nThis recipe contains no definite quantities; use it as a basic map and\nimprovise (as I did) to create your own version of this delicious dish.\n\n## Special Equipment\n\n-   Large, heavy bottom stew pot\n\n## Ingredients\n\n-   Chicken thighs; bone in, skin removed\n-   Dried apricots\n-   White mushrooms\n-   Onion\n-   Peppers\n-   Potatoes\n-   **Moroccan Seasoning**\n-   Salt to taste\n-   Chicken (or other) stock\n-   Cous-Cous\n-   Brown sugar\n\n## Preparation\n\n1.  Chop vegetables, add to pot.\n2.  Add chicken thighs.\n3.  Add apricots.\n4.  Fill with enough stock and/or water to cover.\n5.  Add **Moroccan Seasoning**.\n6.  Simmer for two or so hours, till chicken is cooked and vegetables\n    are soft.\n\n### Taste\n\nAdditions of salt, seasoning, and sugar should be done in moderation and\nslowly. Add, stir, taste, let simmer, taste again... add more of\nwhatever as needed. Repeat.\n\n1.  Add salt and/or additional **Moroccan Seasoning** as needed.\n2.  Add 1 to 2 tablespoons brown sugar (to taste) to temper the\n    bitterness.\n\n### Cous-Cous\n\nIn a saucepan, prepare cous-cous.\n\n1.  Typically, bring 480ml (2 cups) water and/or stock to a boil.\n2.  Remove from heat and stir in 480ml (2 cups) dry cous-cous — instant\n    cous-cous wants roughly equal volumes of grain and liquid.\n3.  Cover saucepan and let sit 5 minutes.\n4.  Remove cover and \"fluff\" cous-cous with a fork.\n\n## Presentation\n\nFor each serving:\n\n1.  Add some cous-cous to a bowl.\n2.  Top with chicken and vegetables.\n3.  Add a desired amount of broth.\n\n## Notes\n\n-   **Cous-cous ratio corrected (2026-07-30):** the method read \"bring 480ml\n    (2 cups) water and/or stock to a boil… stir in 120ml (½ cup) or so of dry\n    cous-cous\" — a 4:1 liquid-to-grain ratio. Instant cous-cous absorbs roughly\n    its own volume, so covering and resting 5 minutes off the heat at 4:1 yields\n    a slurry, not fluffable grain. The grain was raised to match the liquid\n    rather than the liquid cut, because 480ml (2 cups) dry is about six portions\n    and matches this recipe's stated 6 servings, where ½ cup is barely two. The\n    rest of the recipe is deliberately quantity-free (see the headnote); this is\n    the one section that commits to numbers, which is why it could be wrong.\n","draft":false,"servings":"6","prep_time":"20 minutes","cook_time":"2 hours","total_time":"2 hours 20 minutes","created_at":"2015-09-28T19:42:55Z","updated_at":"2026-08-27T21:27:14.434089Z","categories":["Main"],"tags":["Apricot","Chicken","Cous-Cous","Potatoes"],"methods":["Stove-Top"],"themes":["Moroccan"],"ingredients":[{"section":"","items":["-   Chicken thighs; bone in, skin removed","-   Dried apricots","-   White mushrooms","-   Onion","-   Peppers","-   Potatoes","-   **Moroccan Seasoning**","-   Salt to taste","-   Chicken (or other) stock","-   Cous-Cous","-   Brown sugar"],"parsed":[{"raw":"-   Chicken thighs; bone in, skin removed","item":"Chicken thighs; bone in, skin removed"},{"raw":"-   Dried apricots","item":"Dried apricots"},{"raw":"-   White mushrooms","item":"White mushrooms"},{"raw":"-   Onion","item":"Onion"},{"raw":"-   Peppers","item":"Peppers"},{"raw":"-   Potatoes","item":"Potatoes"},{"raw":"-   **Moroccan Seasoning**","item":"Moroccan Seasoning"},{"raw":"-   Salt to taste","item":"Salt to taste"},{"raw":"-   Chicken (or other) stock","item":"Chicken stock"},{"raw":"-   Cous-Cous","item":"Cous-Cous"},{"raw":"-   Brown sugar","item":"Brown sugar"}]}],"related":[{"slug":"moroccan-seasoning","title":"Morrocan Seasoning","relation":"component"}],"servings_int":6,"qc":{"status":"passed","last_checked_at":"2026-08-27T21:28:35.428872Z","checked_by":"robert@sigler.io","standard_version":"2026-07-30","findings_count":0,"stale":false}}