Which tagine is best? Tagines are two-piece, slow-cooking vessels consisting of a cone-shaped top and a wide bowl of a base. Vegetables, meat and spices are layered and covered with liquid, and the ...

I tasted my first tagine in my 20s. A newly minted New Yorker, I went out to dinner in Greenwich Village to a now-shuttered restaurant called Cookies and Couscous. While sitting by the window and ...

Tagine, a North African stew, is distinguished by the conical, earthenware pot in which it is cooked. The heavy cone-shaped lid helps trap steam so moisture trickles back down into the stew. According ...

Why This Recipe Works: Traditional Moroccan tagines are slow-cooked stews that get their name from the earthenware pots in which they are cooked. The domed lids of tagine pots trap condensed moisture ...

The first time I made this tagine, I made a mistake: I stayed in the kitchen while it simmered slowly in the oven, and the smell of the spices -- ginger and cumin, cinnamon, dried chilies, coriander ...

Bring the chicken stock and the butter to a boil in a small saucepan. Season with salt and pepper. Place the couscous and dried berries in a heatproof bowl, and pour the boiling stock over them. Cover ...

Tagine is a word that has two meanings: It refers to both an earthenware pot with a conical lid and to the slow-simmered North African stew that is cooked in it. While a tagine is a method more than a ...

claim rights to the title: it is, after all, Moroccan in substance and inspiration and I have indeed cooked it in the tagine – that Moroccan funnel-lidded casserole – which gives the stew its name.