Moroccan Chicken Tagine — Slow-Cooked Magic the Gold Standard Way 🍋✨

 








Close your eyes and imagine the scent of golden saffron, warm cinnamon, preserved lemon, and sweet apricots slowly filling your kitchen. A tender stew bubbling gently, spiced and fragrant, nestled in a clay pot or gleaming copper vessel, and served with love.

This isn’t just dinner.
It’s a story — told in spices, time, and tradition.
And at Gold Standard Bake Shop, it’s how we do savory comfort food: slow, intentional, and full of soul.

Introducing our Moroccan Chicken Tagine — a dish steeped in history, elevated with our signature commitment to quality, and designed to nourish the body and spirit.

🏺 What Is a Tagine?

A tagine is both a dish and a vessel — a North African clay pot with a cone-shaped lid designed to trap steam and gently braise meats, vegetables, and spices into tender perfection. It’s a method as much as a meal: low, slow, and full of depth.

Our Moroccan Chicken Tagine honors this culinary tradition with layers of flavor:

  • Organic, free-range chicken thighs

  • Sautéed onions, garlic, and ginger

  • Toasted spices: cumin, coriander, turmeric, cinnamon, and paprika

  • Briny preserved lemons and buttery green olives

  • Sweet touches of dried apricots or golden raisins

  • A rich sauce made with our own house-made chicken stock

Simmered gently for hours, the result is fall-off-the-bone chicken in a deeply aromatic broth — savory, sweet, and utterly unforgettable.

🫕 Cooking in Old-World Copper Pots

At Gold Standard, we don’t just honor the ingredients — we honor the tools.

For many of our slow-cooked dishes, including this tagine, we use old-world copper pots that conduct heat evenly and gently, coaxing every layer of flavor from our spices and ingredients.

These hand-hammered pots are more than just beautiful — they’re part of culinary tradition, once used in European and North African kitchens for centuries.
Their excellent heat control allows us to caramelize onions perfectly, reduce sauces slowly, and preserve the texture of delicate ingredients.

In a world of shortcuts and microwaves, we still choose copper — because how you cook is just as important as what you cook.

🌍 A Dish with Roots

Tagine has its roots in the Berber traditions of North Africa, but over centuries, it has been shaped by Arab, Mediterranean, and French influences — making it one of the most flavor-rich cuisines in the world.

It’s a dish that speaks of hospitality, patience, and celebration — often cooked for family gatherings, holidays, or just a well-earned Sunday meal.

At Gold Standard, we cook it the way it was meant to be: with care, intention, and deep respect for its heritage.

✨ The Gold Standard Touch

What sets our tagine apart? It’s all in the ingredients — and the philosophy.

At Gold Standard Bake Shop, we don’t believe in shortcuts or compromises. That means:

  • Organic, pasture-raised chicken

  • Cold-pressed olive oil

  • Real spices (no blends or fillers) — ground fresh in-house

  • House-preserved lemons, fermented with sea salt

  • No synthetic flavorings or MSG — ever

  • Tagine-cooked or copper-pot slow-braised, depending on season

We also source Moroccan saffron and use organic dried fruits to create a perfectly balanced sauce — one that’s not too sweet, not too spicy, but deeply warming.

🫓 Served the Gold Standard Way

Our Moroccan Chicken Tagine is served with care — and with a few extras you won’t want to miss:

  • Fluffy couscous or ancient grain pilaf

  • Our soft, fire-warmed house-made einkorn flatbread, made from the ancient grain we love for its flavor and digestibility

  • A generous dollop of our thick, tangy Greek yogurt — perfect for cooling and balancing every spoonful

  • A side of fresh herbs, lemon wedges, and optional harissa oil for heat and brightness

It’s meant to be shared — spooned out at the center of the table, surrounded by conversation and comfort.

🧡 From Our Kitchen to Your Table

Whether you're new to Moroccan cuisine or crave the nostalgic comfort of slow-cooked spice, our tagine is here to comfort, surprise, and delight.

At Gold Standard Bake Shop, we believe savory dishes deserve the same love, ingredients, and time-honored techniques as our pastries and sweets. That’s why this dish — bold, beautiful, and full of heritage — holds a special place on our menu.

Available on select weekends in limited batches — pre-orders highly recommended. Follow us for behind-the-scenes peeks at our copper pots, our einkorn flatbread process, and other heritage dishes that celebrate flavor and real food.

Curious about our preserved lemons or want to try making flatbread with einkorn at home? Let us know — we’re always happy to share what’s cooking.

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