Just dug the tajine out of the garage - freshly scrubbed and ready for use!
Stay tuned, step by step and recipe will follow as work progresses.
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This tajine survived the plane trip back
from Morocco many years ago |
Preparation is key, you need quite a lot of ingredients.
For 2 persons you need:
- 500 gr lamb chops (with bone)
- 2 large carrots
- 1 zucchini
- 3 medium potatoes
- 3 tomatoes (pealed)
- 35 g tomato concentrate
- 1 large onion (roughly chopped)
- garlic to taste (min 2 cloves)
- herbs: cumin, sweet paprika, kurkuma, pepper and salt, cinnamon (ground + 2 sticks), Ras el Hanout
- 20 apricots (dried) and 1/2 cup raisins
- chicken stock
- 1/2 cup green olives (without stones)
- couscous
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spice the meat (easiest is to put the meat and spices
in plastic bag and shake well) |
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cut the vegetables in big chunks, peal tomatoes and de-seed |
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sweat down the onions and garlic without colouring them (put aside) |
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same saucepan, brown the spiced meat (put aside)
pour some stock into saucepan and loosen juices
add tomato concentrate and stir |
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layer the onions, the meat, the carrots, tomatoes, zucchini and
Cinnamon sticks, pour in the chicken stock until
half way up the contents |
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cover and bring to the boil, reduce heat to simmering
and forget for 45 min |
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I wish they made blogs in smell O vision, mmmmm |
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after 45 min add the potatoes and dried apricots, cover again
and leave for another 10 to 15 min until the potatoes are done |
In the mean time prepare the couscous with some raisins.
We used a regular stainless steel saucepan for the preparation, but for presentation's sake, we used the tajine to bring to the table.
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add some olives to the couscous at the bottom of the tajine |
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layer on the meat |
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now add all the vegetables and juices
sprinkle with sliced almonds and some sesame seeds |
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serve piping hot |
Beware! Enjoy, but watch out for over eating!
Best self prepared dinner EVER!!! OMG so good .... try this recipe, it's truely delicious !!!
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