p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px ‘Avenir Next’; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Vegetable tagine cooking Getting your first Tagine is a moment to be remembered. But, it is a bit like a pet and needs to be cared for. First, soak the tagine overnight in enough water to cover it… Continue reading Moroccan cooking: Caring for your first Tagine
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Moroccan recipes: The Best Couscous
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Moroccan desserts: Flourless Orange Cardamom-Ginger Cake
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Baghrir (Moroccan Pancakes)
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Lemonade-Mint Refresher
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Moroccan coffee: Nous Nous
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Moroccan drinks: Date-Avocado Smoothie
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Moroccan recipes: Salade Mechouia
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Moroccan recipes: Spiced Couscous
The dried fruit and spices in this couscous pair well with any tagine, but especially lamb. Add a little mint for the classic lamb-mint pairing. For more recipes and stories, check out my new cookbook “Stories from Morocco: a food and travel memoir” now available through Kindle. Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 5 minutes Ingredients… Continue reading Moroccan recipes: Spiced Couscous
Moroccan recipes: Green Beans with Chermoula
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px ‘Superclarendon Light’; color: #9a4639; -webkit-text-stroke: #9a4639} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} This sauce is one of those sauces that taste good on anything. A spiced-up cousin to pesto, it makes a statement with whatever you pair it with. Goes great on fish or cauliflower.For more recipes and… Continue reading Moroccan recipes: Green Beans with Chermoula