Moroccan Tagine
Fancy a delicious homemade Moroccan tagine? This vegetarian tagine recipe is easy to cook with low cost ingredients – Moroccan food is super tasty and this dish is a always big hit on the menu at The Happy Pear. Super tasty Moroccan recipe is a quick and easy dinner. It’s a great low fat and low calorie option that takes just 40 minutes to make. This recipe is highly nourishing and is bursting with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Definitely worth a try!
Takes 1 hour
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 1 aubergine
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 1 red onion
- 1 red pepper
- 1 yellow pepper
- 2 carrots
- 7 tbsp water
- 5 tbsp tamari
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- pinch of cayenne pepper
- juice of 1/2 a lemon
- 8 pitted dates
- 1 g tin of chickpeas
- 2 g tins of chopped tomatoes
- bunch of fresh coriander
Toppings
- flaked almonds
- harissa
- avocado
Instructions
- Chop the aubergine into small bite-size pieces. Peel and finely chop the garlic and the onion. Deseed and chop the peppers and finely slice the carrots. Mix the water with tamari.
- Put tamari mix into a large pot along with the aubergine, garlic, onion and paprika. Cook on a medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring regularly, until aubergines are nicely softened
- Add the peppers and carrots to a pan along with the salt and black pepper, cumin, smoked paprika, cinnamon, ground ginger and the pinch of cayenne pepper. Stir everything well and cook for another 5 minutes
- Finely chop the dates and drain and rinse the chickpeas. Add the dates to the pan along with the chickpeas and chopped tomatoes and mix well
- Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and cook for a further 15020 minutes, until the carrots are cooked through
- Chop the fresh coriander and garnish each serving with these
- If you like, top with almonds, harissa and slices of avocado!
