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Cocina del Mundo Herbs & Spices |
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Opening your eyes to the worlds kitchen! |
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Moroccan Spice Blend |
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Fresh hand ground spices blended from my own recipe. This blend is ideally used to spice up stews, roasts, and casseroles. In Morocco baking is done in a Tagine with all the ingredients thrown together. My favorite spice!!! |
Moroccan Spice Blend |
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Foods to eat with Moroccan Spice Blend Apples, avocado, beans, beef, breads, carrots, cheeses, chicken, cucumbers, eggplant, eggs (or quiche), fruit, lamb, onions, pasta, peas, pork, potatoes, rice, seafood, soups or stews, tomatoes, and vegetables of all sorts. Quick marinade 1 cup olive oil, 2 T. Moroccan Spice Blend, 1/8 cup raisin vinegar, 1/4 cup dry red wine, one lemon cut in slices and 1 tsp. salt. Marinate over night with vegetables or meat of your choice before grilling or baking. Moroccan Spice Recipes Couscous Buy box of couscous and follow directions except add 1/3 sachet of Moroccan spice blend. After pasta is prepared let cool, while you cut up remaining vegetables to add. ½ seedless cucumber, cubed ½ red onion, chopped ½ red bell pepper, chopped 1 T. minced garlic 1 Roma tomato, diced 1 Serrano pepper, minced (Add hot pepper to taste) -This is an excellent cold or hot dish. Cooked meat can be added, chicken or lamb. Garnish with fresh chopped cilantro. Lamb Tagine 4 lb. lamb shoulder, cut in chunks 1 cup Olive oil 2 T. garlic 1 lemon, quartered 1 onion, minced 1 package frozen peas 1 pinch saffron ½ sachet of Moroccan spice 1 bay leaf 2 T salt 1 T green peppercorns, ground Optional- kalamata olives -Stir together all ingredients with 1 cup water. Put into a large casserole dish (or Tagine); simmer in 300 degree oven for 1 hour. Take out and turn meat, stirring the vegetables, and then cover. Cook casserole 30-40 minutes. Check tenderness of lamb, may require more cooking time. Garnish with fresh cilantro or lemon wedges. Moroccan tomato sauce 4 chopped tomatoes (or equivalent for canned tomato) 1 T. Moroccan Spice -Allow spice to sit in tomato for 20 minutes. Tomato sauce can be substituted. Excellent with fish, lamb, or chicken. |
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Moroccan Spice Blend Morocco signifies the exotic, the unusual, and the most amazing flavors. Most people have no idea what to expect when I talk about Moroccan food. Meals are served communally, all the guest help themselves from one pot. Tagine (tagines) of spiced rubbed roast lamb, chicken, or game birds, are accompanied with vegetables and fruit. Americans would compare the tagine to a casserole, except casseroles are bland in comparison. Classic tagines include harissa/ras el hanout (red chili and spice mixtures), lemon, fruit, olive oil, the meat, and carrots. These ingredients are combined in an earthenware bowl and slow cooked until the meat falls off the bone. Many other ingredients can be added. Vegetables are always served as side dishes; raw, baked or marinated. In Morocco meals are a grand experience with grilled meats, exotic spices, combinations of Persian delicacies, and very sweet confections. My favorite way to use the Moroccan spice blend is to make couscous or add to tomato sauce with lemon wedges and raisins. Add Moroccan spice blend to sour cream and serve as a dip with steak. Add the blend to olive oil and serve with fresh baked breads. |
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