Sunday, January 24, 2010

Chicken Tagine with Tomatoes and Honey

We're in Morocco tonight, at least for dinner. We had djaj matisha mesla, or chicken with tomatoes and honey, rice pilaf with almonds, carrot salad, and spinach with raisins and pine nuts. The chicken was cooked with onions, tomatoes, saffron, ginger, and cinnamon til the mixture was a thick, caramelized sauce. Honey was added, and the whole thing was topped with toasted almonds and sesame seeds. All of the recipes, except for the rice, come from Claudia Roden's New Book of Middle Eastern Food.

3 comments:

sara said...

wow.......

mandybird said...

i was thinking "wow" before i even clicked through to the full post. :) sounds amazing.

Kt said...

Thanks! :)

And Mandybird, your blog looks interesting -- I'm a big fan of Tolstoy!