Vegetarian tagine berber style
Cooking time: 10 min. / 30 min.Difficulty: easy
Morocco is not a paradise for vegetarians. So vegetarian tagine doesn`t belong to typical Moroccan dishes. But this doesn`t mean they do not exist at all. I was so lucky I bumped into a place they made it and it was a traditional berber style.
Process
Put chopped onions at the bottom part of tajine, salt to taste, add black pepper, saffron and add green parsley. Fry 1-2 minutes.
Mix potato and carrot together. Half of the mix add into the tajine and mix with seasoned onions. Second half put on top of the onion/potato/carrot mix. Press a little bit. Salt to taste again, add black pepper, green parsley, put a few green olives on top and cover.
Saute on a medium heat 30 minutes.
Serve with Moroccan bread (khobz).
To buy tajine USA, UK, Europe; saffron: USA, UK, Europe, Moroccan plates and bowls USA, UK, Europe
Ingredients
For tagine for 1-2 persons:
- 1 red onion finely chopped
- olive oil
- salt
- black pepper powder
- 1/2 tsp saffron or its synthetic substitute
- handful green parsley chopped
- 1 carrot without the middle part cut into tiny strips
- 1 potato finely diced
- 6 pickled green olives
For 8-10 portions:
For couscous:
- 1 kg dry couscous
- 4 tbs virgine olive oil
- salt
- pinch of ground black pepper
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- couscoussier = double chambered steamer; the bottom part is for meat and vegetables, top is for steaming couscous
For meat and vegetable mix:
- 1 kg beef cut on pieces
- 2 carrots cut on longitudinal quarters, hard midsts removed
- 1 courgette halved
- 2 small aubergines cut on longitudinal qarters and peeled just partly (stripes)
- 1 handful shelled large green beans
- 6 pcs turnips peeled and halved
- 1 green bell pepper cut on stripes
- 1 onion sliced
- 1 tomato chopped
- 1/4 small pumpkin unpeeled hollowed out
- 1 tsp ground red paprika
- 1,5 tsp ground black pepper
- 1,5 tsp ground cumin
- 0,5 tsp ground saffron or turmeric
- oil
- salt
- handful green parsley chopped
- handful cilantro chopped
- 1 green chili
Authentic tools needed:
- tajine
