Slow Cooker Chicken Tagine with Sweet Potato

Colourful, spiced with gentle Moroccan spices and easy to put together, this slow cooker chicken tagine is suited to easy midweek meals and entertaining too! It will go down well with the whole family.

Great for the whole family

I’m still on a healthy eating drive so this slow cooker chicken tagine is just what I need, served with green vegetables and couscous or rice. 

In winter or in summer, these Moroccan inspired flavours add a touch of spice to your mealtime. The chicken is so tender from slow cooking, and the harissa, cumin and cinnamon add a delicately spiced flavour.

Don’t you just love it when dinner looks after itself? That’s the main reason I love to use my slow cooker. Throw in some ingredients and then later on return to a tasty meal, ready to eat.

I like to shred the chicken with a couple of forks before serving, so that the chicken serves more people. You don’t need a whole chicken breast per person when making a stew like this I find. The spices are mild so the whole family will enjoy the dish.

Chickpeas and sweet potato make the dish go further too, you could also add butternut squash if you have any, the butter soft texture and flavour goes well in a tagine also. Adding in the pulses and vegetables is a great way to bulk out your dish so it will fill more tummies.

Garnished with pomegranate seeds, chopped flat-leaf parsley and dried rose petals, these add flavour and colour to the finished tagine, brightening up your plate.

Ingredients

Note: For the ingredient quantities please check out the recipe card further down the post.

• onion
• red pepper
• sweet potato
• chicken breasts 
• tin of chickpeas
• passata (UK passata is equivalent to US tomato puree)
• harissa paste – get this from any supermarket in the specialist ingredients shelf with the herbs and spices
• cumin
• cinnamon
• pomegranate molasses – great to have in the cupboard, a jar will last for ages
• dried rose petals – you can leave these out if you don’t have any, but they add a lovely fragrance
• pomegranate seeds, to garnish
• fresh flat-leaf parsley, to garnish 

Step by step

Step 1. Gather your ingredients and put them in the slow cooker pot, excluding the garnish.

Before cooking, this dish already looks really warming and rich in your slow cooker pot, giving you an idea of what is to come.

Step 2. Cook on low for 6-7 hours or on high for 3-4 hours.

Step 3. Shred the chicken and garnish before serving straight from your slow cooker.

I really think midweek meals needn’t be boring when you can have something like this. Plus you can portion any leftovers up and have them for lunches through the week as well.

Serving suggestions

Traditionally a tagine is served with couscous, which takes only minutes to prepare by pouring over hot water, another time saver which is ideal if you want to eat as soon as you get home.

Rice or pasta will also work too!

It is also great to add more green vegetables on the side.

Adapting the recipe

Vary the spice level by increasing or reducing the amount of harissa paste.

Add in any vegetables you need to use up from the salad crisper drawer.

Add in a few chopped dried apricots.

Leave out the sweet potato and serve with cauliflower rice to reduce the carbs.

Freezing

Yes, you can freeze this recipe but don’t add the garnishes before freezing.

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Here are a few of my other slow cooker chicken recipes you might also like:

• chicken saag curry
• chicken pasanda
• chilli and lime chicken
• chicken with Mediterranean roasted vegetables
• chicken thighs with tomatoes and peppers

More tagines

Here are some more tagine recipes from me and my blogging friends:

• Moroccan harissa chickpea stew from Simply Food
• Lamb tagine with pomegranates
• Vegan roasted vegetable and chickpea tagine with bulgur wheat from Tinned Tomatoes

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Recipe

Slow Cooker Chicken Tagine with Sweet Potato

This Moroccan flavoured dish is a delicious and warming recipe to make in your slow cooker which you can eat all year round

5 from 3 votes

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Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Slow Cooker

Keyword: tagine

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 4 hours

Total Time: 4 hours 5 minutes

Servings: 4

Calories: 271kcal

Author: Lucy Allen | BakingQueen74

Ingredients

• 1 onion
• 0.5 red pepper
• 1 sweet potato (250 g approx)
• 3 chicken breasts (500 g approx)
• 400 g chickpeas drained
• 500 g passata
• 2 tsp harissa paste
• 2 tsp cumin
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 tsp dried rose petals crushed
• 3-4 tbsp pomegranate seeds I used half a pomegranate
• 3-4 tbsp fresh flat-leaf parsley chopped

UK Measurements - US Measurements

Instructions 

• Add the ingredients to the slow cooker pot.
• Mix gently to combine the sauce ingredients.
• Cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low for 6-7 hours.
• Garnish with the dried rose petals, pomegranate seeds and flat-leaf parsley, and serve with couscous or rice.

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