🇲🇦 Moroccan

Lentils Tagine

Name: Lentils Tagine
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 58 min
Total time: 73 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: to taste Salt; 2, halved and sliced Onion; 4 cloves, crushed Garlic; 2 tbsp Olive Oil; 2 Bay Leaf; 250 g Lentils; 500 ml Stock or Broth; 1 tsp Ras el Hanout; 1 Preserved Lemon; 150 g Green Olives

🇲🇦 Moroccan

Clay-pot tagine of lentils with preserved lemon and olives — Morocco's slow-cooked soul. 73 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 15 min Cook 58 min Serves 4 Hard

Ingredients

Saltto taste
Onion2, halved and sliced
Garlic4 cloves, crushed
Olive Oil2 tbsp
Bay Leaf2
Lentils250 g
Stock or Broth500 ml
Ras el Hanout1 tsp
Preserved Lemon1
Green Olives150 g

Optional extras

Fresh Cilantrohandful, to finish

Instructions

1
Brown the lentils deeply in the Olive Oil in a heavy pot — patience here pays off later.
2
Remove it, then let the onion and garlic soften in the drippings with the ras el hanout.
3
Return the lentils, add the stock and bay leaves, and bring to the gentlest simmer.
4
Cover and braise low and slow until the lentils yields to a spoon, about 45 minutes.
5
Skim the fat, reduce the sauce to a glaze, and serve with something starchy to catch every drop.

Chef's tip

Skim the fat from the surface before the final reduction for a cleaner sauce.

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Watch how it's made

Video: Delicious Moroccan Lentils - Easy, healthy, and vegan (GF). · on YouTube