Mutton Tagine


Moroccan or Arabian tagine dishes are slow-cooked savory stews, typically made with  meat, poultry or fish together with vegetables and/or fruit and saffron cooked in a special pot called 'TAGINE' with a conical top. It has a lot of ingredients but its very easy to cook.
Ingredients
1/2 kg mutton with some fat, marinated in salt, turmeric powder and red chili powder for at least 1 hour
1 large onion, sliced
7-8 garlic cloves, chopped
2 tomatoes, quartered
1 large carrot, cut into large pieces
2 potatoes, cut into large pieces
1 large bunch fresh coriander, chopped
5-6 dates/ dry figs/sultanas/prunes
Salt to taste
Spice mix
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp paprika
2 tsp coriander powder
2 pinches saffron 


put all the spices in a bowl and add 1/2 a cup of  warm water keep aside for later use.

Cover the bottom of the pot with onion slices. 
 Spread the mutton pieces over it.

Pour over the spice mixture
Place the potatoes and carrots over the mutton.
 Finish the layers with rest of the ingredients.

 Place the pot on very low heat. Cover with the lid. let it cook for 1 hour or til the mutton is cooked.
 Enjoy hot with Naan/ kulcha/bread!!! 

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