Moroccan spiced roast chicken and couscous | New World

Ingredients

• Roast Chicken:
• 1 whole chicken (buy the best quality you can afford)
• 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
• 1 heaped tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 heaped tsp ground ginger
• ¼ tsp each salt and pepper
• ½ preserved lemon – flesh and pith removed, roughly chopped
• ¼ cup olive oil
• 1 cup pitted prunes, roughly chopped
• 2 medium red onions – peeled and sliced
• Olive oil
• 1 ½ cups vegetable or chicken stock
• 1 Tbsp honey
• Couscous:
• 2 cups stock (or 2 cups water simmered for 15 minutes with cut onion, half carrot, stick of celery, a bay leaf, ½ tsp salt and pepper)
• 1 cup uncooked couscous
• Dash of olive oil
• Fresh parsley to garnish, roughly chopped (optional)