Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken tagine with honeynut squash. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken tagine with honeynut squash using 20 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash:
- Get 2 Tbsp ras el hanout (recipe in method)
- Make ready 2.5 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Take 2 Tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 1 lb chicken thighs, cut into chunks
- Take 1 onion, sliced
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic smashed
- Take 2 inch knob ginger, grated
- Prepare 3/4 cup dried apricots, quartered
- Make ready 1 (14 oz) can diced tomatoes
- Get 2 cups hot water
- Prepare 1 Bou chicken bouillon cube
- Prepare 1 cup diced squash
- Make ready 1 cup pitted green olives, halved
- Get 2 Tbsp ghee or oil
- Prepare 8 oz frozen spinach, thawed
- Take 1 cup parked couscous
- Make ready 1 cup cilantro, chopped
- Make ready 1 lemon
- Make ready 1/4 cup pistachios, chopped
Steps to make Chicken Tagine with Honeynut Squash:
- If you're using a traditional tagine, begin by preheating the oven with tagine inside at 325F. If you don't have a tagine, you can do this recipe on the stove top in a Dutch oven and transfer to the oven later on.
- Combine the olive oil, ras el hanout, salt, and pepper in a small bowl.
- Ras el hanout: 12 green cardamom pods. 4 black cardamom pods. 4 tsp cumin seeds. 4 tsp coriander seeds. 2 tsp anise seeds. 1/2 tsp allspice berries. 1/4 tsp black peppercorns. 4 tsp ground ginger. 2 tsp nutmeg. 2 tsp Aleppo pepper. 2 tsp cinnamon. Grind all in spice mill. If you want to use a premixed Moroccan spice blend that's fine too.
- Add half the spice paste to the chicken and mix.
- Add the ginger to remaining spice mix.
- Dissolve the bouillon cube in 2 cups of hot water.
- Combine the onion and garlic in a bowl.
- Combine the apricot and tomato in a bowl
- Combine the olives and squash in a bowl.
- Heat the ghee in a skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add the onion and garlic and brown.
- Add the remaining spice mix and cook until fragrant.
- Add the onion mixture to the tagine
- Deglaze the skillet with the tomatoes, apricots and 1/2 cup of the stock.
- Transfer the tomatoes to the tagine.
- Nestle the chicken into the tagine
- Cover with the lid and bake for 45 min.
- Add the squash and the olives and continue baking for another 30-45 min.
- Meanwhile, combine the cilantro, the zest of the lemon, the juice of the lemon, and the pistachios.
- Add the remaining 1.5 cups stock to a small pot. Bring to a boil and add the couscous. Cook on low, covered for 10 min followed by removing from heat and letting sit to steam.
- When the squash is tender, add the spinach over top and continue cooking for 10 min.
- Remove the tagine from the oven and top with the cilantro mixture.
- Serve in deep bowls with the couscous and lots of the tagine.
Foods That Can Make Your Mood Better
A lot of us have been conditioned to think that comfort foods are bad and are to be avoided. Often, if the comfort food is a high sugar food or some other junk food, this holds true. Other times, comfort foods can be very nutritious and good for us to eat. Some foods honestly do improve your mood when you eat them. When you feel a little down and are needing an emotional boost, test out a few of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, can be truly wonderful at dealing with depression. You need to make sure, however, that what you make includes the yolk. When you would like to cheer yourself up, the yolk is the most essential part of the egg. Eggs, the egg yolk in particular, are rich in B vitamins. The B vitamin family can be great for boosting your mood. This is because they increase the function of your brain’s neural transmitters (the parts of the brain that affect how you feel). Consume an egg and cheer up!
Put together several trail mix of nuts or seeds. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, etc are all good for raising your mood. This is because seeds and nuts have plenty of magnesium which increases your brain’s serotonin levels. Serotonin is the “feel good” chemical that tells your brain how you feel day in and day out. The more of it in your brain, the better you’ll feel. Not only that but nuts, in particular, are a fantastic source of protein.
Cold water fish are great for eating if you want to battle depression. Cold water fish such as tuna, trout and wild salmon are rich in DHA and omega-3 fats. These are two substances that promote the quality and function of the grey matter in your brain. It’s the truth: eating tuna fish sandwiches can truly help you overcome your depression.
Some grains are really great for fighting off bad moods. Quinoa, millet, teff and barley are all actually wonderful for helping increase your happiness levels. They help you feel full also which can actually help to improve your mood. Feeling starved can be terrible! The reason these grains are so good for your mood is that they are not difficult for your stomach to digest. You digest these foods quicker than other foods which can help boost your blood sugar levels, which, in turn, helps make you feel more pleasant, mood wise.
Green tea is excellent for moods. You were sure green tea had to be included in this article, right? Green tea has been found to be rich in an amino acid known as L-theanine. Research has discovered that this amino acid stimulates the production of brain waves. This will improve your brain’s concentration while at the same calming the rest of your body. You probably already knew how easy it is to get healthy when you drink green tea. Now you know that applies to your mood also!
Now you can see that junk food isn’t necessarily what you have to eat when you are wanting to help your moods get better. Try several of these instead!
