I love North African cuisine especially Moroccan. I have a tagine which generally sits in my cupboard collecting dust but I am determined to use it more and cook something which resembles the yummy meals I eat in North African restaurants.
Please share your best recipes for the tagine - mine can't go on the stove top but if I can get some oven recipes down pat I might lash out on one of the stove top safe ones. For now I'll just do any browning in a frying pan.
Okay, you're going to think I'm a complete dag, but both these recipes come from websites.
The first one I picked out of a magazine, and realised later that it was from Masterfoods. It's a Vegetable Tagine with Chickpeas. It's obviously vegetarian, it's tasty and really easy. I've never done it in a tagine, only on a stovetop cooking pot, but I reckon you could put it in the oven as well.
The other is a Best Recipes recipe, and is a Moroccan Lamb Tagine. I've done this in the oven in a tagine, but also done it on a stove top (using diced lamb rather than lamb shanks). It is to die for, and my DH loves it (I've tried freezing serves of it but he eats it all). It is a little fiddly, and requires some prep-time, but it's so worth it. I recommend getting really good quality lamb shanks as the quality will make or break the dish.
We have a Moroccan cookbook but I've never made any tagines out of that - let me know if you'd like some ideas from that cause I can copy out some of those recipes as well.
mmmmm yom Persephone. I'm definitely giving those a try.
I've dug out the cook-book that my brother gave me when he gave me the tajine so once I've tested some of the recipes I'll come back and post them. It's a translation of a Moroccan recipe book so parts of it are in Engrish
My Moroccan cookbook has the following tagines....
- lamb with apricots, prunes and honey
- chicken with green olives and preserved lemon
- monkfish, potatoes, cherry tomatoes and olives
- vegetable
- kefta with eggs and roasted cumin
If any of them take your fancy I'm happy to type it up and post
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