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purplecatFrom The Roasting Time around the World by Rikmini Iyer.
( Ingredients )
( Method )
Changes, Mistakes and Subsitutions
Replaced the 2 plum tomatoes with a tin of chopped tomatoes. The tagine was quite watery as a result - I probably should have reduced the stock to compensate. Only used 100g apricots since that was all I had in the house. Served with rice and didn't bother with the coriander or yoghurt.
Verdict
I have a tagine recipe I'm already very fond of and this was not as nice, lacking the depth and richness of flavour. I suspect that the big difference is that my existing recipe coats the meat in the spices (and doesn't use ras-el-hanout as a shortcut, though I'm not sure that made that much difference) and then fries it off with the onion before the long casseroling. It also has a wider range of ingredients including almonds, saffron and honey though, again, I'm not sure that was the real difference here. No aubergine though - I might add aubergine to it next time I cook it. At any rate, while this gets points for being super simple, it loses them for flavour. If I want to make a tagine I'll use my old recipe.
( Ingredients )
( Method )
Changes, Mistakes and Subsitutions
Replaced the 2 plum tomatoes with a tin of chopped tomatoes. The tagine was quite watery as a result - I probably should have reduced the stock to compensate. Only used 100g apricots since that was all I had in the house. Served with rice and didn't bother with the coriander or yoghurt.
Verdict
I have a tagine recipe I'm already very fond of and this was not as nice, lacking the depth and richness of flavour. I suspect that the big difference is that my existing recipe coats the meat in the spices (and doesn't use ras-el-hanout as a shortcut, though I'm not sure that made that much difference) and then fries it off with the onion before the long casseroling. It also has a wider range of ingredients including almonds, saffron and honey though, again, I'm not sure that was the real difference here. No aubergine though - I might add aubergine to it next time I cook it. At any rate, while this gets points for being super simple, it loses them for flavour. If I want to make a tagine I'll use my old recipe.
