Tagine: Spicy Stews from Morocco Author: Visit Amazon's Ghillie Basan Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1845974794 | Format: PDF
Tagine: Spicy Stews from Morocco Description
About the Author
Ghillie Basan is a food writer and restaurant critic who runs workshops for cooks in the Scottish highlands. She has written a number of books on classic cuisines of the Middle East and South-east Asia. Tagine is her first book for Ryland Peters & Small.
- Hardcover: 64 pages
- Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small; Ninth Printing edition (August 1, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1845974794
- ISBN-13: 978-1845974794
- Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This is an extremely nice set of recipes, all of which were designed to be cooked in a tagine. The title's implication is that if you aren't serious enough to buy one of the conical cookpots, this probably isn't for you (the way a Waffle Cookbook expects you to own a waffle iron); but I have zero problems cooking these dishes in an ordinary chicken fryer, and I can't see that I'm missing anything. (Mind you I wouldn't *mind* one of those pretty tagines, but it hasn't become a necessity yet.) Basically, these are stews or braises... which sounds much less intimidating and exotic, doesn't it?
If you own a general Moroccan cookbook (I have and like Cooking at the Kasbah, plus I've read a few others) you'll certainly find a few tagine recipes, but most of the overview cookbooks stick with a few standards. (Unfortunately for me, that usually means lamb and/or olives, neither of which we eat.) With 25 tagine recipes in this collection, obviously there is a wider range, and not all of them will make you point and say, "Oh, I need to go to the middle-east market to make that!"
For example, the recipe I made so far -- spicy chicken tagine with apricots, rosemary and ginger -- uses ingredients you can find at your local grocery store. It was also breathlessly easy to throw together for a midweek supper: saute onion, rosemary, ginger, chiles; throw in a cinnamon stick; brown the chicken thighs; add a few more items (such as dried apricots and a can of tomatoes) and simmer for 40 minutes. Serve with couscous. I won't need to tell you to smack your lips and say, "Yum!
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