Rfissa Express – fragrant chicken and lentils with papardelle

Name: Rfissa Express – fragrant chicken and lentils with papardelle
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: 4 tbsp olive oil; 4 pc chicken legs; 3 pc onion; 20 g fresh coriander; 3 pc garlic; 1 tsp ground turmeric; 1 tsp ground ginger; 1 tsp ras el hanout; ¾ tsp salt; ¼ tsp black pepper; 1 pinch saffron threads; 200 ml vegetable stock; 400 g green lentils; 500 g papardelle

A quick Moroccan-style chicken and lentil tagine-style sauce served with al dente papardelle, flavoured with ras el hanout and saffron.

20 min 771 kcal/serving serves 6

771kcal36gprotein110gcarbs21gfat

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🫒olive oil

🍗chicken legs

🧅onion

🌿fresh coriander

🧄garlic

🫙ground turmeric

🫚ground ginger

🥣ras el hanout

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About Nargisse Benkabbou

Moroccan-Belgian chef and cookbook author specialising in modern Moroccan home cooking

Nargisse Benkabbou is a Moroccan-Belgian chef, food writer, and self-taught cook based in London, best known for her blog My Moroccan Food and her cookbooks, including Casablanca and Sweet Sugar, Sultry Spice. She is recognised for bringing traditional Moroccan cooking into home kitchens with an emphasis on approachable, well-tested recipes.

Her cooking draws on classic Moroccan staples such as preserved lemon, ras el hanout, saffron, and slow-cooked tagines, alongside pastries and sweets rooted in Moroccan tradition. She favours recipes that keep the flavour profiles of Moroccan cuisine intact while adapting techniques and ingredient lists for home cooks working outside Morocco, often streamlining methods that would otherwise require specialist equipment or hard-to-find ingredients.

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