Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, butternut squash tagine. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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For the butternut squash tagine, heat one tablespoon of the olive oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. By Caroline Hire - Food writer. Make this tasty vegetarian tagine that kids will love as much as grown-ups.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have butternut squash tagine using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Butternut Squash Tagine:
- Make ready 1 tbsp. olive oil or fry light spray
- Make ready 1 medium sized butternut squash, chopped into small 1cm cubes
- Take 4 Cloves garlic, bashed and roughly chopped up
- Prepare 1 Red onion finely sliced
- Get 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- Get 1 tsp ground ginger
- Take 1 cinnamon stick
- Take 1 tsp ground coriander
- Get 1 tsp ground cumin
- Take 1 carton passata 500grams
- Take 3 preserved lemons, pips taken out and roughly chopped up
- Get 200 grams halloumi cut into cubes
- Make ready 150 ml stock (vegetable or chicken)
- Prepare 1 tbsp. clear runny honey
- Get 12 olives
- Prepare to taste Salt and Pepper
- Make ready Fresh coriander as a garnish
- Get Yogurt – optional
Make it any night of the week for a vegetarian staple! A tagine is a North African dish, traditionally cooked in a heavy clay pot. Tagines are slow cooked Preparing the butternut squash is the most consuming part of this recipe. I like to get it out the way.
Instructions to make Butternut Squash Tagine:
- On the hob! - Slice in half and remove the seeds from the butternut squash, peel, and chop it. USE a STRONG sharp knife.
- Chop up the onion and garlic.
- Prepare the spices and lemon.
- With a saucepan or tagine heat it up on the hob to a medium heat. Drizzle or spray the oil and add then throw in the onion and garlic, let it slowly soften for 4 – 5 minutes stirring regularly.
- Next add the spices for a minute or two to heat through, then the lemon. Add the butternut squash stirring well to coat all the cubes with the spices. Splash in the tomato passata, stir….. and the honey and salt and pepper.
- Pour in the stock cube, now let the sauce do its things, bring it down to a gentle simmer. Stir occasionally to make sure its not burning on the bottom.
- Check the butternut squash with a fork or knife after 20 minutes to see if its soft all the way through but not mushy. It may need another 10 minutes or so. At the end stir in the halloumi and olives to heat through.
- Serve with couscous, and flat breads! delicious!
This delicious recipe is really fast to put together, especially if your local store sells cut pre-cut butternut squash, it can easily be adapted for vegetarians by using cooked or canned chickpeas instead of the. This one is just for serving, but the tagine (confusing as it is the name for both the vessel and the recipe) comes together easily on the stovetop with no fancy equipment. The word tagine describes both the clay pot traditionally used to cook the dish and the dish itself. Butternut squash wedges steam on top as the chicken cooks, then get stirred in at the end. Moroccan Butternut Squash, Chickpea and Quinoa Tagine.
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