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Title: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: moroccangirl on June 16, 2012, 10:18:36 PM
www.cookingwithalia.com (http://www.cookingwithalia.com)

I've made a few of her recipes. They are easy to follow and always come out great. Most of them have videos also. I posted last year about the fekkas, Moroccan biscotti. I used her recipe and my mom and sister and a family friend (all amazing cooks that dont need recipes) of all people were asking ME for the recipe I used.


I want to try to make the bstella. It is heavy but SO good.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: Rejaneration on June 17, 2012, 07:24:23 AM
I love Moroccan food.  I will have to check her out. 
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: blue sleep on June 18, 2012, 08:50:32 PM
Fantastic. Thanks!

We've had a fish tagine over the past couple of days. We've gotten most of our recipes from about.com, of all places. I'm no expert though so it'll be nice to play around on a site with MG approval.

http://moroccanfood.about.com/ (http://moroccanfood.about.com/)

Their Indian site looks good too.

Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: triciaflower on June 18, 2012, 10:51:08 PM
I think I want to buy a tagine. I know it's used for stews and meats. Can it be used on top of the stove? Or is it just for in the oven? Can I use it on my grill?
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: blue sleep on June 19, 2012, 06:34:32 AM
I think it is used mostly on the stove, cooking at a steady medium-low heat. 
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: triciaflower on June 19, 2012, 11:49:08 AM
Cool. I have some gift cards itching to be spent.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: moroccangirl on June 19, 2012, 04:24:32 PM
I think I want to buy a tagine. I know it's used for stews and meats. Can it be used on top of the stove? Or is it just for in the oven? Can I use it on my grill?

On top of the stove. My tagines are all from morocco and they have to be used on a gas stove. So I have to use one of those heat diffusers under the tagine. The ones made here may be able to be used directly on electric stoves with no diffuser, not sure. But make sure to find that out.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: triciaflower on June 19, 2012, 07:49:48 PM
I have a gas stove. So I don't need a diffuser, right? Am I understanding that correctly?
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: moroccangirl on June 19, 2012, 10:24:19 PM
I have a gas stove. So I don't need a diffuser, right? Am I understanding that correctly?

Right. I have electric, and on top of that it's one of those flat surface ones (I hate those). My mom has gas and uses her tagines right on the fire. I *think* she even uses it on her gas grill. I'll have to ask her.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: radial on June 19, 2012, 10:44:57 PM
So, what's the big deal with tagine cooking?  Oher than tradition, of course.  Wouldn't an appropriately shaped cast iron cooking vessel work just as well? 
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: moroccangirl on June 20, 2012, 10:29:37 AM
So, what's the big deal with tagine cooking?  Oher than tradition, of course.  Wouldn't an appropriately shaped cast iron cooking vessel work just as well? 

Yes I think so. Traditional tagines are clay pots. Not sure if the clay adds anything, but it's all about the dome shaped lid.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: The Turtle Whisperer on June 20, 2012, 10:44:18 AM
So, what's the big deal with tagine cooking?  Oher than tradition, of course.  Wouldn't an appropriately shaped cast iron cooking vessel work just as well? 

Ikea has a Tagine with a cast iron base. 
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: caribougrrl on July 10, 2012, 12:59:07 PM
bump
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: Natasha on August 02, 2012, 08:11:04 PM
I think you do need a diffuser with a gas stove. At least, when I was researching it that's what I got from it.

I am making chicken tagine with preserved lemons, olives, and thyme right now. :fingers:
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: radial on August 02, 2012, 10:43:30 PM
I think you do need a diffuser with a gas stove. At least, when I was researching it that's what I got from it.

I am making chicken tagine with preserved lemons, olives, and thyme right now. :fingers:

What's the verdict?
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: Natasha on August 02, 2012, 11:37:12 PM
Good. Different. Very lemony. Maybe not my favorite, but I'd eat it again. Next time I'd leave the skins out because it was pretty oily.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: radial on August 03, 2012, 12:08:56 AM
Good. Different. Very lemony. Maybe not my favorite, but I'd eat it again. Next time I'd leave the skins out because it was pretty oily.

Thanks, I'm slowly getting around to making preserved lemons and incorporating them into the day to day cooking.  Will go slow. 
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: Natasha on August 07, 2012, 11:18:25 AM
Those preserved lemons grow on you! I'm acquiring a taste.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: moroccangirl on August 07, 2012, 02:34:05 PM
Those preserved lemons grow on you! I'm acquiring a taste.

Just spray your food with lemon pledge, it'll taste the same.  :P
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: cgraz on August 07, 2012, 07:45:39 PM
I thought of all you guys when I watched the Today show this morning and Jamie Oliver made some kind of quick cous-cous recipe with preserved lemon, as part of a segment on cooking Moroccan food. He was all about it, and all I could think of was you comparing it to Pledge, mg.  :D
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: moroccangirl on August 07, 2012, 10:54:02 PM
I thought of all you guys when I watched the Today show this morning and Jamie Oliver made some kind of quick cous-cous recipe with preserved lemon, as part of a segment on cooking Moroccan food. He was all about it, and all I could think of was you comparing it to Pledge, mg.  :D

 :D And I know it couldn't have just been a bad batch be ause my sister was eating them out of the jar like they were M&M's.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: caribougrrl on September 03, 2013, 08:30:03 AM
bump
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: moroccangirl on September 06, 2013, 03:53:15 AM
Thanks for bumping CG! This is my favorite website. I have never had a bad dish from here. This is where I learned to make the couscous last week.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: hally on September 19, 2013, 02:08:17 PM
I just bought a really pretty Tagine in Home Goods for $19.99
Total impulse buy, I can't wait to make something in it though.
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: moroccangirl on September 19, 2013, 03:49:49 PM
I just bought a really pretty Tagine in Home Goods for $19.99
Total impulse buy, I can't wait to make something in it though.
Nice! Chicken with olives and potatoes is my favorite tagine, but not my DH's. so I don't make it that much. The website posted above has some great recipes!
Title: Re: Moroccan recipes website
Post by: hally on September 19, 2013, 04:25:23 PM
I am drooling over some of those, the lamb ones, okra, turnips oh my!