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Moroccan Chicken

Moroccan Chicken
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I don’t know about you, but I get tired of the same recipes over and over again. With the July 4th festivities this past weekend, I was overcome with barbeque sauce, grilled…well….EVERYTHING and enough bean and tomato salads to last until November. I was ready for something different. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE grilled food. It’s easy and marinades add tons of flavor without adding lots of calories. But I also love my big, giant, 6-quart covered saute pan (a gift from my wonderful friends, Donna and Donnie Graves). I use it almost every day. You can cook an entire meal for 6 in this thing. Trouble is I need help lifting it to pour out the sauce I make! But I digress….

Like I was saying, I was searching for something really different from what I usually add to chicken. When that happens, I like to look to other cultures for inspiration. There was a recipe for a Moroccan dish in one of the gazillion cooking magazines I happen to read, but I didn’t like all the ingredients. I looked up a few others, took a little from here and a little from here and I got this. It’s incredibly tasty and I just love the combination of pistachio nuts and apricots. The addition of garbanzo beans make it hearty and fiber-friendly, too. It’s not however, a dish I’d make for kids. They’re always wary of “weird” spices and food. It’s only when they get -like over 35-that they appreciate foods that are out of the ordinary. OK, maybe I’m exaggerating and I don’t have kids, but I remember how my brother Todd never ate anything but hamburgers and fried shrimp until he graduated college.

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