A quick and easy Moroccan tagine style dish, a beef stew with an amazing array of flavours! A tagine is both the name of a baking/cooking vessel and of the dish that is made in it and I like Moroccan style tagines with their layers of flavours! Normally for a beef tagine I would use...

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A fiery hot red chili pepper sauce tempered with the sweetness of roasted red peppers and seasoned with spices. Harissa is a Tunisian hot chili sauce/paste that is gaining popularity in other countries and cuisines including Moroccan cuisine. It is typically made from piri piri chili peppers, garlic, coriander, caraway and oil and it is...

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A pumpkin and chicken tagine (a Moroccan style stew) that is just packed with fall flavours! I certainly have been enjoying pumpkin season and while they are here I squeezed in another recipe, this pumpkin and chicken tagine (a Moroccan style stew). One of the signatures of a tagine dish is all of the multitude...

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A grilled cheese sandwich stuffed with Moroccan seasoned grilled chicken, green olive and preserved lemon tapenade, pickled red onions and spicy harissa along with plenty of melted manchego cheese! I must be going through withdrawal, everywhere I look I see grilled cheese sandwiches including in the moroccan grilled chicken sandwich with preserved lemon tapenade and...

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A tasty Moroccan grilled chicken sandwich with preserved lemon tapenade, pickled red onions, spicy harissa mayo and baby spinach. When I made the Moroccan grilled chicken the other day I made a double batch because I wanted to ensure leftovers so that I could make some sandwiches. I am sure that some of you saw...

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Tasty grilled skewered chicken marinated in a Moroccan style spice blend. Up next in my summer grilling spree is some tasty chicken that is marinated in a Moroccan style spice blend. This Moroccan grilled chicken is as easy to make as marinating the chicken in lemon juice, olive oil and a blend of spices and...

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This butternut squash and chickpea ‘tagine’ with quinoa has an amazing blend of spices, flavours and textures. While I was enjoying my ossobuco tagine , the whole wheat couscous that I served it on reminded my of quinoa and that sent mind down the path of using quinoa in a Moroccan style dish. At first...

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A Moroccan take on osso buco. Veal shanks braised in a sweet and savoury tomato sauce with a Moroccan spice blend. With Easter quickly approaching I figured that it was about time to start testing some dishes for my Easter menu and I had several ideas. Up first was this Moroccan style osso buco inspired...

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I have been enjoying quinoa ever since I discovered it and one of my favorite ways to enjoy it is in a simple salad. I tend to add some beans to the quinoa followed by some vegetables, often roasted, a nut and then I finish it off with a dressing and some herbs. I recently...

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I have been wanting to try making a pastilla for a while now and when I saw a recipe for a chicken and date pastilla in this months Food & Drink magazine it was like fate as I still had a bunch of fresh medjool dates! A pastilla (aka bastilla, bisteeya, b’steeya, bstilla and b’stilla)...

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