Moroccan Chicken Slow Cooker Recipe with Spices & Preserved Lemons

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Moroccan chicken slow cooker recipe with chicken legs flavoured with Moroccan spices and preserved lemons


This Moroccan chicken slow cooker recipe. Uses chicken legs, flavoured with Moroccan spices and preserved lemons. Cooked in a slow cooker on Low for 3 hours.

For more slow cooker chicken UK recipes. See my list of posts included below.

Moroccan Chicken Slow Cooker Recipe

Ingredients (Serves 4)
  • 4 whole chicken legs or 4 chicken thighs and 4 drumsticks.
  • 1 onion or 3 spring onions, chopped.
  • 1 garlic, crushed.
  • 400 g tin of drained cooked chickpeas.
  • 1 tsp each of ground coriander, dried thyme, turmeric and black pepper.
  • ½ tsp each of ground cinnamon, paprika and sea salt.
  • 2 tb tomato puree.
  • 500 ml chicken stock.
  • ½ a preserved lemon, chopped (see recipe note below). Or use ready-made preserved lemon* from a jar. Or zest of ½ a lemon.
  • 50 g sultanas, optional.
  • 70 g pitted green olives, optional.

I made this slow cooker Moroccan Chicken recipe in a Morphy Richards Accents Sear and Stew 3.5 L Slow Cooker (See my review).

Method (Total Cooking Time: 3 hours)
  1. Brown the skin of the chicken legs or pieces in a frying pan. (Or you can skip this step, and put the chicken into the pot without doing this pre-cook browning step. And then remove the skin at step 5, once the chicken is cooked.)
  2. Put the chicken into the slow cooker pot, in one layer.
  3. Add the rest of the ingredients.
  4. Cover and cook on Low for 3 hours. Or until the chicken is completely cooked through.
  5. If you prefer, you can remove the chicken skin at this point, before serving.
  6. Serve with steamed couscous or bulgur wheat.
Recipe Notes
  1. I used homemade preserved lemons in this recipe. Check out BBC Food’s How to make your own preserved lemons.

More Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes

For more slow cooker chicken and also turkey recipes. You might like:
Slow Cooker Chicken Paprika Morphy Richards Manual Recipe.
Easy Moroccan-Inspired Slow Cooker Turkey Tagine.
Whole Chicken Curry in the Slow Cooker using a Jamie Oliver Recipe.
Chicken Curry in Slow Cooker with Jar Sauce.
Slow Cooker Turkey Fricassee – Morphy Richards Manual Recipe.

See also my latest Slow Cooker Chicken UK Recipes for more ideas, adapted recipes and recipe reviews.

And also my latest Best Slow Cooker Recipe Book Reviews UK round-ups.

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