Chicken legs that slowly turn golden on a bed of baby potatoes, with pepper, onion and lemon slices in between. The marinade of our chicken and lemon tagine mix goes into the dish with a little water, so the potatoes soak up the flavour as they cook. The dish stays covered for an hour and a quarter, then the foil comes off for the last fifteen minutes and a crispy skin. One dish, little work.

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⏱ Preparation time: ±1h 45min
👥 Servings: 3
🌶 Difficulty: easy
🍽 Category: Main course

Ingredients

For the chicken

• 1 kg chicken legs
• 30 g chicken and lemon tagine mix
• Moroccan olive oil

For the dish

• 1 kg baby potatoes
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 onion
• 1 lemon
• 250 ml water

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 200 °C.
2. Wash 1 kg baby potatoes, halve them and spread them over an oven dish.
3. Cut the onion and red pepper into small pieces and add them to the chicken legs in a large bowl.
4. Mix 30 g chicken and lemon tagine mix with a generous drizzle of Moroccan olive oil into a marinade.
5. Pour the marinade over the chicken, onion and pepper and mix well.
6. Lay the marinated chicken legs with the onion and pepper on top of the potatoes. Pour 250 ml water into the empty bowl, stir up the leftover marinade and pour that mixture over the dish.
7. Place a few lemon slices on top.
8. Cover the dish with baking paper and then aluminium foil.
9. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 200 °C.
10. Remove the paper and foil and bake for another 15 minutes, until the chicken is golden brown.
11. Take the dish out of the oven and serve.

Chef's tip

Don't add any more water once the foil comes off. The last fifteen minutes are meant to dry things out, and that is what gives the chicken its crispy skin.

Serving suggestion

Put the dish on the table with bread to mop up the lemony juices.

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All the spices for this dish are in our chicken and lemon tagine mix. Use our Moroccan olive oil for the marinade. Order them together and make this dish at home with the same flavour.

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