This is my adaptation of a recipe suggested to me by Mohammed Ifadir. See the discussion for the changes. It's unlikely that I will cook this
one again; I've made more discoveries.
Ingredients
quantity
ingredient
step
3 g
cumminseed
1
2.5 g
black pepper
1
2 g
cinnamon
1
12 g
ginger
2
20 g
garlic
2
0.2 g
saffron
2
1.2 kg
boned leg of lamb
3
water to make a paste
4
350 g
onion
5
13 g
parsley
5
60 g
oil
5
270 g
aubergine
6
300 g
courgettes
6
330 g
potatoes
6
300 g
prunes
7
1 g
whole cinnamon strip
7
250 g
almonds, peeled
8
Preparation
Finely grind cumminseed, pepper and cinnamon.
Chop ginger and garlic, add spices, saffron and water.
Cut onions into slces, coarsely chop parsley. Add oil to tagine, cover with onions and
oil, and bring to the boil. Close lid and simmer for 15 minutes.
Cut aubergine, courgettes and potatoes into large pieces and arrange on top of the
tagine. Bring back to the boil, cover and simmer for 2 to 3 hours until tender.
I got the original of this recipe from YouTube, but it seems to have gone away. The URL was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFv2vmzkd.
The recipe was interspersed in the video, making it really difficult to follow. Before
starting, I wrote it down and rearranged, up to a point:
quantity
ingredient
step
1 kg
beef
1 tsp
cumin
1 tsp
ginger
½ tsp
pepper
¼ tsp
cinnamon powder
saffron
little water
2
large chopped onions (sliced)
2
tbs parsley chopped
4
chopped garlc cloves (30 g?)
4
tbs oil
10 g
salt
250 g
prunes
120 g
sugar
cinnamon strips
250 g
almonds
Preparation
Chop meat into coarse pieces (50 g?)
Mix spice with little water, marinate meat for 5 minutes.
Add garlic, parsley, onion, oil. Simmer for 15 minutes. Add little water, cook until
tender.
Add cinnamon and sugar to water, bring to boil, cook prunes for 30 minutes.
Step 3 wants more water added. That made no sense to me, and my version bore that out.
There was more than enough liquid at this point.
There's not very much to the tagine. My understanding is that they should be a complete
meal in themselves; this one isn't. That's the background for the vegetables that I put
in my version.
