Italian Tagliatelle al ragù

How to make Moroccan fish Tagine with vegetables?

What is Moroccan Tagine? 

• The word Tagine is a critical portion of Moroccan cooking and has been a portion of the culture for hundreds of long times. and it has two implications. To begin with, it is a sort of Moroccan cookware customarily made of clay or ceramic. Second, the word Tagine moreover refers to the food cooked in the cookware. Tagine may be a wealthy blend of meat, poultry, or fish, and most frequently incorporates vegetables or natural products. Vegetables may too be cooked alone within the Tagine which is a healthy dish for vegetarian people.

• Tagines, moreover, incorporate different flavors of spices, such as saffron, ginger, turmeric, cinnamon,  and cumin. 

What are the types of Moroccan Tagines?

• As we said before the ingredients of Tagine can change we can use lamb meat, beef meat, chicken, or fish; whereas a few Tagines include dried natural products and nuts, you may moreover use herbs, olives, and preserved lemons. 

• There's furthermore a famous Tagine known as Berber Tagine which recognizes itself by how the vegetables are organized around the meat. 

 

• The fish Tagine is considered a healthy dish among other tagines, chicken Tagine, beef Tagine, Lamb Tagine and so on because it consists of all the ingredients that a person needs in a meal. This dish is eaten with bread but some people prefer to eat it with rice. 

 

• Thus in this blog, we will present fish Tagine with the vegetable recipe and we will show how to prepare it in an easy way that a beginner in cooking can prepare it without complication by following exactly the steps. 

1. Preparation: 30 mins
2. Cook: 45 to 60 mins
3. Servings: 4 to 6 servings
4. Origin: Morocco

Moroccan Fish Tagine Recipe.

- The recipe will give the ingredients and the procedures we follow to prepare a delicious Fish Tagine and have a very satisfying result.

What are the ingredients for fish tagine?

• 2 sea bream fish (each one may have 500 gr) or 1 kg swordfish cut into circles (you can also use any kind of white boneless fish if you want but it takes less time to be cooked.)

•  2 large potatoes peeled and sliced into circles 

• 1 large tomato sliced into circles

• 1 green pepper sliced into circles

• 1 red pepper sliced into circles

• 2 peeled carrots sliced into circles 

• 2 lemons (1 lemon and a half  we squeeze it and the other half we cut it into circles)

• 1 large onion peeled and cut-in-circles 

• 4 big garlic cloves, chopped finely

•  parsley and cilantro chopped finely

• 1 pinch of salt to taste 

• 1 teaspoon Pepper 

• 1/2 teaspoon Harissa (Moroccan hot sauce) if you don`t have you can use chili

• 1/2  teaspoon paprika 

• 1 tablespoon tomato paste

• 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder

• 50 mil olive oil or vegetable oil as you want

• A small amount of water

• Red or green olives

What are the steps to prepare the fish Tagine?

1. The first step is to clean the fish 

2. Then in a bowl, prepare the fish marinade: mix the olive oil, chopped coriander, cumin, paprika, pepper, Harissa or chili, tomato paste, chopped garlic, lemon juice, and salt, mix all the ingredients to get an excellent sauce. 

3. Add the fish or fish fillets cut into pieces to the sauce and mix with your hands, long enough for the fish to soak up the mixture. It is preferable to leave the fish for 45 to 60 minutes to absorb the sauce.

4. Take your Tagine and begin to put the vegetable. First, put your onion in the bottom of the Tagine then add your carrots potatoes. 

5. Put the fish above your vegetables then top it with the green and red peppers, tomatoes olives, and lemons, and pour the rest of your sauce above. 

6. Add the olive oil or vegetable oil and a small amount of water approximately a glass of water because the vegetable will release some water. If you need more, you can add from to time.

7. Cover the Tagine and cook it for about 40 to 60 minutes on a very soft heat control from time to time, as usual, the clay absorbs the water, so if you need some liquid just add some water from time to time

Note:

- you can cook this dish also in the oven. Use your oven pan and follow the same steps wrap the pan with aluminum foil and bake it at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. For the last 10 minutes uncover your pan and leave until it has less liquid and gets a nice color.

Serving.

• Serve the fish Tagine as a main dish with bread and it better if you have homemade bread, or rice if you want, 

 Enjoy the delicious Tagine.  

 Good Appetite 

😀