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Instructions
Cooking Steps
Step 1: To begin making the Moroccan Roast Chicken with Apricots recipe, first tie the legs of the chicken together with wax free thread
Step 2: Place the chicken on baking tray with breast side up
Step 3: Pat dry the chicken
Step 4: In a bowl add olive oil, cinnamon powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, paprika powder, red chilli powder, sumac, harissa paste, salt, pepper apricots, honey, whisk together
Step 5: Rub this spice mix all over the chicken, under the breast, behind on it back evenly
Step 6: Into the same bowl you mixed the spices, add all the vegetables
Step 7: Add a few drops of olive oil, toss it together and place these vegetables some inside the chicken and some on the outside next to chicken
Step 8: Preheat oven to 180 degree centigrade
Step 9: Roast the chicken in oven for about 30 minutes
Step 10: In between keep brushing melted butter over the chicken, also bast the chicken (the juices and olive oil that flows down into the baking tray pour it back over the chicken)
Step 11: Do this atleast 3 to 4 times in between the roasting time
Step 12: Using tongs turn the chicken breast side facing down and roast for about 15 minutes
Step 13: Remember to brush butter and bast the chicken at regular intervals
Step 14: We want to see the skin turn brown
Step 15: In a bowl add honey and apricots, coat the apricots well in honey
Step 16: Next turn back the chicken with breast side facing up using tongs
Step 17: Pour few tablespoon water and place the honey coated apricots over and inside the chicken
Step 18: Roast for another 15 minutes
Step 19: We know the chicken is roasted well when the thermometer inserted into the chicken thighs reads about 180 degree centigrade
Step 20: Remove from oven and cut the chicken into pieces and serve hot
Step 21: Serve Moroccan Roast Chicken with Apricots along with Herbed Butter Garlic Quinoa Recipe for a weekday night dinner