Beef Tagine
Bring Morocco home tonight by making beef tagine with vegetables. Chuck roast stews with potatoes, carrots and zucchini into a tender and aromatic meal that is easy to make but will impress.
Ingredients
Spice Mix
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground paprika
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- ½ to 1 tsp ground chili powder to taste
Tagine
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 ½ lbs. stew beef or a chuck roast cut into 2 to 3 inch pieces
- 1 medium-sized onion chopped
- 3 cloves garlic chopped
- 1 large tomato diced
- 1 large red potato sliced lengthwise into 8 pieces
- 1 medium-size zucchini sliced lengthwise into 4 or 6 pieces
- 1 large carrot quartered
- salt and pepper to taste
- large handful fresh parsley roughly chopped
- large handful coriander (cilantro) roughly chopped
Instructions
- Mix spices together in a small glass or cup. Add a little water to make a slurry. Set aside until needed.
- Set your tagine pot or dutch oven on the stove over medium-low heat.
- Add a nice drizzle of olive oil, about 1 to 2 tablespoons. Place the cut up beef in the pot.
- Beef will start cooking and sizzling while you are cutting up the rest of your ingredients.
- Spread the onion, garlic and tomato around the middle area of the beef, allowing to slightly spill over the edges.
- Now start layering in the rest of your veggies based on hardness of cooking. Place the long spears in a pyramid form over the meat. Starting with potatoes and carrots, followed by zucchini.
- Pour your spice slurry over the pile of meat and veggies and drizzle again with a small drizzle of olive oil.
- Finally, top the pyramid with the chopped parsley and place the lid on the pot. Check that your heat is turned down to just keep the meat simmering.
- Depending on the size of your meat and the quality of the cut, the tagine will take between 1 1/2 to 2 hours or more to cook. Do remember to use a very cheap cut of meat for this.
- Once everything is nice and tender, serve up with couscous and flatbread on the side for scooping out your meal.
