Sweet potato chicken tajine

✔️Lactose-free

There's something so comforting about dishes that slowly come together in a warm pot. Soft vegetables, tender chicken and those deep spices that fill the kitchen before you even lift the lid. This sweet potato chicken tajine is exactly that kind of cozy comfort. The kind of recipe you make when you want something wholesome, flavorful and gently sweet without any extra effort. If you love melt-in-your-mouth sweet potato, soft tomatoes and a sauce that comes together almost on its own, this one is going to feel like pure comfort in every bite.

Ingredients

Chicken

• 200 g chicken breast

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 tsp black pepper

• 1 tsp turmeric

• 0,5 tsp ginger powder

• 1 tsp paprika

• 1 tsp garlic powder

• Coriander - amount to taste

• Sambal - amount to taste

• A drizzle of olive oil

Vegetables

• 200 g cherry tomatoes

• 500 g sweet potato

Seasoned water

• 50 ml warm water

• 0,5 tsp paprika

• 0,5 tsp garlic powder

• 0,5 tsp salt

• 0,5 tsp black pepper

• 0,5 tsp turmeric

• 0,5 tsp ginger powder

finishing

• Coriander - amount to taste

Instructions

1. Cut the chicken into cubes and marinate with the spices, sambal, olive oil and coriander. Heat a little olive oil in the tajine and cook the chicken for 10 minutes.

2. Add the tomatoes, cover the tajine and cook for about 5 minutes until the tomatoes soften. Press them gently to release their juice, then stir well.

3. Peel and cut the sweet potato into pieces and spread them over the tajine.

4. Mix the warm water with the spices and pour it over the sweet potato.

5. Cover the tajine and cook on medium heat until the sweet potato becomes soft. This can take up to an hour. Check occasionally. If the sauce starts bubbling too much, place the end of a spoon between the lid and the tajine.

6. When the sweet potato is almost done, taste the sauce and adjust the seasoning if needed.

7. Finish with the coriander, cover the tajine again and let everything cook until completely tender.