Tajines

[Christine Animal]

We had the curry thread and I just saw these Tajine (pottery cooking dish with a lid from North Africa) recipes on the Orange page, delicious too.   [:)]

Tajines

 

Here's a tajine   http://www.flickr.com/photos/kali-ma/122747687/

 

 

[lecurie]

Hi Christine

Don't be tempted to use one of the pretty dishes to cook the tajine in.  Most of the decorated ones are serving dishes only.  They will shatter if you use them on the hob or in the oven.  Only ones that state that they are safe for the oven can have the tajine cooked in them and then ONLY in an oven.  BTW, do you know that you have to put water into the little hollow on the top of the lid;

[Frederick]

Yes.........Gi-Fi  were selling a range of the pretty ones in various sizes I noticed were popular and I wonder how many people found that they were no good to cook with .....the rough looking ones from the big supermarket chains are  the cooking ones ...we had to leave ours in a bucket of water for 24 hours before we first used it .......The thick beef ribs that come from Super U ..usually two tied together with string in a pack .....they cook up well in a tagine.

[Christine Animal]

Yes, a lot of them are just for decoration.  We've got a couple of the brown ones, like the photo in the link above, which we brought back with us.

 

[Normandie]

Hi Christine

You reminded  me ... Nigella Express (I don't usually watch her programmes) was very good last week ...

She had what looked like a great tagine recipe (but only served (didn't cook it) in the tagine) http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/lamboliveandcarameli_87563.shtml

and her ribs/chicken recipe looked good too. 

I'm a veg myself but I know my OH would have like the above esp as you can prepare it in advance, hence the 'express' recipe.

Bon appetit!

 

[Iceni]

[quote user="Normandie"]

You reminded  me ... Nigella Express (I don't usually watch her programmes) was very good last week ...

[/quote]

I don't usually watch the food - and sadly have never seen her ribs either.

John [:(]

definitely not

[raindog]

We spent some time in Morocco a few years ago and my wife took this pic of one of the many guys cooking with tajines at the side of the road. We noticed that in the mornings workerswould give a little package of meat+other stuff to cook for their lunch break. In think that cooking with tajines in an oven dosen't exist over there. They either cook on top of a charcoal fire or (and this is the method we use here) on a gas flame but with an aluminium 'plaque' to protect the 'pot'. I do't wr ever witnessed anybody put water in the little hollow on the top. It's just a handle to pick it up with.

[IMG]http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q223/sheeponabike/TAGINES.jpg[/IMG]

(sorry if his is a bit garbled, i'm pissed )

[Rob Roy]

(sorry if his is a bit garbled, i'm *** )

Can I have some of what you've had???[:P]

[Christine Animal]

Thanks for that photo Raindog, great !  There might be something in that thing of putting water in the hollow, the "knob" is hollow, like in some cast iron casserole lids.

       

        http://www.flickr.com/photos/musaeum/384118908/

 

Normandie, you can do tajines without meat, I think there's a vegetable one in the first link, and here's an artichoke one.

http://www.jeunesdumaroc.com/article974.html

 

[raindog]

[quote user="Rob Roy"]

(sorry if his is a bit garbled, i'm *** )

Can I have some of what you've had???[:P]

[/quote]

No problem

Wine, eau de vie,and Picon Bière to follow.....