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M'qalli Chicken with Olives
Photo: Lily Banse

M'qalli Chicken with Olives

10 ingredients 4 steps fandom
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

238
Calories
33g
Protein
4g
Fat
17g
Carbs

Counts 8 of 12 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Cloves 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Olive 1 large (4g) 4
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Coffee not in our table 0
Saffron not in our table 0
Soup not in our table 0
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 chickens
  • 3 onions cut into slides
  • 3 crushed cloves of garlic
  • 1 coffee spoonful of ginger
  • A little bit of saffron
  • 1 soup spoonful of lemon juice
  • Salt
  • 1 glass of water
  • 2 preserved lemon cut into slides
  • 10 preserved green olives

Directions

1

Clean and drain the chicken, salt it, leave it for 2 hours, then clean and drain it again.

2

Cook it in a pressure cooker with onions, garlic, saffron, ginger, lemon juice, salt and water, mix and cover, then cook on a middle fire, till the chicken is almost cooked, add lemon slides, olives and cook for 5 mn on a little fire.

3

Present the chicken in complete, watered with sauce and decorated with olives and preserved lemon slides.

4

Category:Moroccan Recipes

Recipe sourced from fandom

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