North African Baked Chicken

I hadn’t really planned on putting this on the blog, but my dinner guests have insisted. Since it disappeared in record time last night, I guess it was a ‘hit’.

Years ago, I dated a great Persian guy for the longest time, and his mother was one of the best cooks I’ve ever known. She and I would actually do marathon, multiple day cooking fests for parties that were absolutely incredible. I tell you this, because some of the influences that I learned in Monir’s kitchen find their way into dishes like the following, which I sort of made up on the fly last night. This dish has both Moroccan and Tunisian influences.

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