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Moroccan-Spiced Chicken Pot Pie

Published: Mar 29, 2022 by Chef Grey

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I grew up eating pot pies from the grocery store. They came in a metal dish in a cardboard box and you baked them in the oven. Now they come in a cardboard dish and you microwave them. But I still like to flip the pan over on a plate and lift it off, then break the bottom crust open to let the filling flow out.

This recipe gives a North African flare to the humble chicken pot pie! Moroccan spices add layers of flavor, and garbanzo beans, raisins, and olives replace the usual mixed vegetables.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie
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  • We Love Moroccan Flavors!
  • Ingredients You'll Need
  • Mixing It Up
  • Make This Delicious Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie!
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We Love Moroccan Flavors!

Morocco is a North African country, just south of Spain at the Gibraltar Strait. Moroccan cuisine is very flavorful, with lots of warm spices and contrasting flavors of salt, like green olives, and sweet, like raisins and apricots. It's a party for your tongue!

African, Middle Eastern, and Indian recipes typically have long ingredient lists because of all the spices they use. Mastering spice mixes is well worth your time! You can create any blend of flavors you want, instead of relying on off-the-shelf mixes.

Ingredients You'll Need

  • chicken
  • limes
  • paprika
  • ground cumin
  • ground ginger
  • salt
  • black pepper
  • ground cinnamon
  • ground allspice
  • ground nutmeg
  • cayenne pepper
  • butter
  • onion
  • sliced green olives
  • golden raisins
  • flour
  • chicken broth
  • pie crusts

Mixing It Up

We use chicken thighs here, but you can use breasts as well.

We also use lime juice, but lemon juice would work just as well.

Adjust the spice mix to your taste, you know what you like!

And of course you can make your own pie crust. I'm not very good at pastry dough, so I use store-bought. Someday I'll be brave enough to try making my own!

Make This Delicious Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie!

Here are the ingredients. There are a lot of bowls and they wouldn't all fit in one picture, so I've taken their portraits in the order in which they're use in the recipe.

First up: cubed chicken, spices, and lime juice and pulp.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie ingredients chicken spices lime juice

Next: butter and onions...

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie ingredients onionw butter

Olives, garbanzo beans, and raisins...

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie ingredients green onions garbanzo beans raisins

Chicken stock and flour...

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie ingredients chicken stock flour

And finally, pie crusts.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie ingredients pie crusts

Prepare the Chicken

Cut the limes in half. Use a small spoon to scoop our as much of the pulp and juice as you can from between the membranes. You'll want about 2 tablespoons. This is a bit of work and can get rather messy. For a quicker prep you can take the easy way out and just juice the limes.

Pour the lime juice and spices into the bowl with the chicken.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie chicken and spices

Mix well and set aside to let those flavors soak in while you make the rest of the filling.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie chicken and spices mixed

Met the butter in a large pan over medium-high heat. This pan is from our new Misen non-stick cookware set. You'll be seeing a lot of this set in future posts!

Sauté the onions until they start to soften and turn translucent, about 4 minutes.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie onions sauteed in butter

Add the olives, raisins, and garbanzo beans and stir for a couple of minutes. What you're doing here is building layers of flavor.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie garbanzo beans olives and raisins added

Add the chicken mixture and stir for a couple of minutes.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie chicken added

Sprinkle the flour over the filling and stir well to mix it in. The flour is going to make the filling thicken.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie flour added

Pour the chicken stock into the pan and stir well. Bring to a boil and cook until it thickens. Stir it occasionally. It's getting thick when you drag a spoon or spatula through the pan and the liquid doesn't flow back immediately. The liquid should also coat the back of the spoon and not run right off.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie stock added

While the filling is cooking down, carefully unroll one of the pie crusts and press it into the pie dish. You want it to come to the top of the dish so that it will meet with the top crust. You may need to carefully stretch the dough a bit.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie bottom crust in pie disn

Pour the thickened filling into the pie dish.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie filling added to pie dish

Unroll the second pie crust over the pie and press the edges of the two crusts together. Mine looks a bit "rustic". As I said above, I'm not that great with pastry dough. I'll get better, I promise!

Use a paring knife to trim away any bits that might be hanging over the edge, then cut four slits in the top of the crust. Oh, no! I poked a hole in the crust! It's looking even more rustic!

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie top crust on pie

I've put the pie dish on a baking pan. If the filling should leak out, it's a lot easier to clean a baking pan than the oven!

Put the pie in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. The top crust should be golden brown, and the juices should be bubbling nicely.

I check by tapping the crust gently with my finger to make sure there are no soft places. If it's not quite done, bake for another 5 minutes and check again until it's good.

Here's the pie right out of the oven... golden brown, bubbling, and still rustic!

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie out of the oven

Pot pies are usually not going to slice into clean wedges like other pies because the filling is more liquid, so the best way to serve it is with a spoon.

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie with a scoop taken out

This pie was delicious, and we had to stop ourselves from eating it all at once!

Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie on a plate

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Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie

Moroccan-Spiced Chicken Pot Pie

Chef Grey
This recipe gives a North African flare to the humble chicken pot pie! Moroccan spices add layers of flavor, and garbanzo beans, raisins, and olives replace the usual mixed vegetables.
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 30 minutes minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes minutes
Total Time 50 minutes minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine African
Method Oven, Stovetop
Servings 6
Calories 482 kcal

Special Equipment Needed

  • 1 9-inch deep-dish glass pie dish

Ingredients
 

  • 1 ½ pounds chicken thighs skinless and boneless, cut into 1-inch cubes
  • 2 small limes
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon black pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • 1 large onion cut into ½-inch cubes
  • 1 (15-ounce) can garbanzo beans
  • 2 (2.5-ounce )cans sliced green olives
  • ⅓ cup golden raisins
  • 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 2 refrigerated pie crusts

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 425°F.
  • Cut the limes in half and remove the seeds. Use a small spoon to scoop the pulp and juice from between the membranes.
    2 small limes
  • Mix the chicken cubes with the salt, black pepper, paprika, cumin, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and cayenne pepper, and lime juice in a large bowl.
    1 ½ pounds chicken thighs, 1 teaspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon ground cumin, 1 teaspoon ground ginger, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon black pepper, ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon ground allspice, ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg, ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • Melt the butter in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion and sauté for about 4 minutes until the onions starts to soften.
    3 tablespoons butter, 1 large onion
  • Add the olives, raisins, and garbanzo beans to the skillet and stir for a couple of minutes to let the flavors combine.
    1 (15-ounce) can garbanzo beans, 2 (2.5-ounce )cans sliced green olives, ⅓ cup golden raisins
  • Add the chicken mixture to the pan and stir for a couple of minutes.
  • Sprinkle the flour over the mixture and stir for about 1 minute. The flour will help thicken the filling.
    2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • Add the broth and bring the filling to a boil, stirring occasionally, until it thickens.
    1 cup chicken broth
  • Press the first pie crust into the pie dish and pour the filling into the dish. Put the second crust over the top of the dish and seal the dough to the edge of the dish. Use a paring knife to trim any extra dough, and then cut several slits in the crust.
    2 refrigerated pie crusts
  • Bake for about 20 minutes until the crust is golden brown and the juices are bubbling.

Nutrition Estimate

Calories: 482kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 15gFat: 29gSaturated Fat: 11gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 12gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 57mgSodium: 662mgPotassium: 307mgFiber: 3gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 307IUVitamin C: 14mgCalcium: 41mgIron: 3mg
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  1. mb says

    March 28, 2024 at 8:16 pm

    5 stars
    I started with some leftover pastry dough and what I could find in the freezer: cooked turkey, chickpeas, chicken stock; and what I could find in my pantry: raisins, spices, onions, olives. I sauteed the onions first then added the spices and the rest, flour for thickening, then the broth. Rolled out the crust, threw it all together and baked. It was fantastic! I did rate it five even though I used cooked turkey not raw chicken, but the rest was the same. I think the seasonings and additions are what makes it special.

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    • Grey says

      March 29, 2024 at 6:44 am

      Hi, thanks for checking out the site! No worries, turkey is a great substitute for chicken so I would call this "unmodified", LOL. I've found chicken pot pie to be wonderfully flexible, and I've got ideas for a few more international versions!

      Best regards,
      ~~ Grey

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Hi, I'm Grey. My wife Debbie and I love to explore flavors, cuisines, and cooking techniques. We hope we can inspire you to try something new, because Variety is the Spice of Your Life!

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