Moroccan Saffron Chicken Recipe

Recipe By The Spruce Eats

This dish of chicken cooked with lots of onions, saffron, and other moroccan spices is easy to make and is the savory foundation to a number of delicious moroccan specialties such as chicken bastilla and chicken briouats. Saffron threads, a featured seasoning in moroccan cooking, are the stigmas from a small purple crocus. Saffron is the world's most expensive spice by weight since each flower has only three stigmas, which have to be carefully hand-picked and dried, resulting in the saffron threads we find in jars on store shelves. Since this is a laborious process, and it takes over 14, 000 of tiny stigmas to create an ounce of saffron, the spice comes with a hefty price tag. Fortunately, a little goes a long way. You'll be tempted to eat this tender, flavorful chicken right from the pot, but it is best served on a bed of moroccan rice pilaf or in seffa medfouna.

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1hr 15minstotal
15minsPrep
1hr Cook

ingredients serves

Ingredients For Moroccan Saffron Chicken Recipe

Nutrition
value
338
calories per serving
17 g Fat5 g Protein56 g Carbs33 g FiberOther

Current Totals

  • 17 g Fat
  • 5 g Protein
  • 56 g Carbs
  • 33 g Fiber

MacroNutrients

  • Carbs
    56 g
  • Protein
    5 g
  • Fiber
    33 g

Fats

  • Fat
    17 g

Vitamins & Minerals

  • Calcium
    609 mg
  • Iron
    7 mg
  • Vitamin A
    377 mcg
  • Vitamin B1
    0 mg
  • Vitamin B2
    0 mg
  • Vitamin B3
    1 mg
  • Vitamin B6
    0 mg
  • Vitamin B9
    36 mcg
  • Vitamin B12
    0 mcg
  • Vitamin C
    17 mg
  • Vitamin E
    4 mg
  • Copper
    0 mcg
  • Magnesium
    66 mg
  • Manganese
    11 mg
  • Phosphorus
    90 mg
  • Selenium
    4 mcg
  • Zinc
    1 mg
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. All nutritional information presented are estimates and not meant to substitute professional dietary advice or treatment

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