Chicken tagine Mchermel, or simply chicken tagine with chermoula, is a classic Moroccan dish that I especially love. It’s a comfort food dish, like all Moroccan tagines and stews. It’s so delicious and doesn’t require much effort, but you’ll need some patience. As I always say, a good tagine needs time to cook. This Chicken tagine Mchermel is very flavorful and doesn’t take long to prepare. The longest part is letting the chicken marinate. Ideally, let it marinate for two hours, or even overnight, so the chicken can soak up all the great flavors from the marinade. The marinade is…
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Continue readingWhat is chermoula? How do you prepare it? How do you store it? And most importantly, what can you do with it? I’ve been wanting to write an article about this Moroccan marinade made from fresh herbs, spices, and a lot of olive oil for a while now. Chermoula is widely used in Moroccan cuisine and is essential for many fish dishes, such as “sardine and smoked eggplant balls,” “quinoa and shrimp stuffed calamari,” “traditional rice calamari,” and “baked fish.” It’s also the base for the famous “djaj mchermel” tagine, which simply means chicken with chermoula. Today, I’m sharing five…
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Continue readingToday I share with you a dish that I particularly love, “Moroccan Stuffed squids with rice” with its spicy tomato sauce. A recipe full of Moroccan flavours. I had already shared a “stuffed squids with quinoa and shrimp”. But today is the one that mom made for us, it’s really delicious. The squid is tender, the stuffing is just sublime and perfectly flavoured with the Chermoula, I’m not even talking about the spicy tomato sauce. You can use the tomato sauce to cook prawns with chermoula (at home we call it pil pil, nothing to do with the “Prawns Spanish…