Chicken Couscous With Caramelized Onion and Raisin Tfaya | Saveur

Ingredients

• ½ cup raisins
• 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter or olive oil
• 1 tsp. ground ginger
• ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
• 3 large red onions (2¼ lb.) red onions, thinly sliced
• ¼ cup honey
• 2½ lb. bone-in chicken thighs or legs, skin removed
• 1 Tbsp. kosher salt
• 1 Tbsp. olive oil
• ½ tsp. ground ginger
• ½ tsp. ground white pepper
• 6 whole cloves
• 1 small cinnamon stick
• Pinch saffron threads, crumbled
• ¾ cup canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed
• 1 Tbsp. unsalted butter
• 10 cilantro sprigs, folded and tied into a bundle with twine
• 10 parsley sprigs, folded and tied into a bundle with twine
• 3 cups fine semolina couscous (1 lb.)
• 1 tsp. fine salt
• 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter, at room temperature
• Vegetable oil, for frying
• ½ cup whole blanched almonds
• 3 large hard-boiled eggs, peeled and cut into wedges (optional)