Braised red bell pepper with dates, lots of coriander seeds and pine nuts
Red peppers become so deliciously sweet if you simmer and braise them for a long time. It makes a tagine dish so delicious. Here the peppers still get help from medjouldadels, the kings of dates. In recent months, since our last visit to Morocco, I have started to use even more dried fruit in dishes. With potatoes, in kibbehs and also here with the bell pepper. Truly a find of Moroccan and Middle Eastern cuisine. The pine nuts give the earthy character and the coriander seed in abundance gives it its own signature. It was ‘the favourite’ of many guests when we had this in the menu at the beginning of September. Now at your home.
Radicchio salad with dates and pumpkin seeds
A crunchy, sweet and savory salad. When you talk about layers of flavor, you’re talking about this salad. One taste sensation after another in your mouth. And just when you think you’ve tasted everything, you discover a new taste. This is such a salad.
Date tahina paste
This is one of those pasta that you instantly become addicted to. Delicious with some bread. Slightly sweet, but also savory because of the tahina and salt. Delicious with a drink, delicious with a mezze, delicious with some bread. And made in a jiffy. Also nice sometimes.
Moroccan desert soup
Sweet and spicy. Savory too. Exactly the right consistency. Soft in your mouth. Complex flavors without being distracting. It sounds like literature, but it is simply a hero of a soup. An every day soup. Stand up whoever doesn’t like this soup. I accept the challenge. That’s how confident I am.