Vegetable Tagine
VEGETABLE TAGINE: One-Pot-Meal🤩
Use your imagination and cook up this delicious and economical vegetable stew as a main course. Replace chickpeas with any other legume, and use the vegetables in your fridges to substitute some on the prep table.
Sweat your choice of spices such as cumin, gingerĀ (freshly grated), cardamom, paprikaĀ (smoked is better), cloves and coriander with onions in oil at the start of your recipe.
Stir through minced garlic at the last minute before plating.
Garnish lavishly with cilantro leaves (coriander), mint and parsley at the table just before serving.
(ALWAYS sweat your onions and fresh ginger in a small amount of oil, then add the spices to be absorbed release their beautiful flavours. You know this has been achieved when the kitchen smells strongly from far away!
Add garlic only towards the last few minutes of cooking.)
Make sure you heat your tagine slowly by putting it in a cold oven, then put the heat on. This will prevent it from cracking.
The lid of the tagine is shaped specifically to keep flavour and heat in. The ceramic gives a specific ‘feel’ and flavour to anything cooked in it, very much like a cast-iron pot with its own unique effect on the taste of what is cooked in it.
The idea is that you build a ‘tower’ of ingredients in the tagine – place vegetables that need moisture and strong heat at the bottom of the bowl (potatoes, pumpkin, carrots, etc.), then building it up in layers with soft vegetables that only need steaming towards the tip of the tower. Position the lid carefully and don’t open until your cooking time is over. The shape of the lid will collect steam condensation and create liquid in the bottom of the bowl, while steaming the lighter veggies at the top with dryer heat.
BTW you do not need a tagine to make this dish🤣 – just cook up as a really good stew in a pot on top of the stove the normal way – packing it with heavier veggies at the bottom, and those who only need gentle cooking at the top. Try not to open the lid:).
Below is a suggestion of typical ingredients you could use for a traditional Moroccan flavour.
Ā Ā 
Contact me if you need help or want to chat – Marian (083 2293751)
