Monday, November 14, 2011

Beef Tagine with Prune



( for 1-2 people )
Ingredients:
* 1 lb beef with bone or boneless beef
* 1 onion - chopped
* 3 gloves garlic - chopped
* 1 tsp ginger powder
* 1/4 tsp mix saffron
* pitch saffron pistils
* 1/4 tsp pepper
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 4 tablespoon olive oil
* 2-3 cups water-  or add more water if necessary

Decorations
- 10 pitted prunes
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 tsp sugar
- 15 blanched fried almonds
- 1/4 tsp sesame seeds
- 1/2 tsp butter
- 1 1/4 cup water

Instructions:
- In a pressure cooker or pot, Place the beef with chopped onion, garlic, salt, pepper, olive oil, ginger powder, mix saffron, saffron pistils and water. Cover and let simmer for 30 minutes or more. Check the meat every 15-20 minutes, and add more water if need it. let the meat cook until very tender and sauce reduced to about 1/2 cup

- for decoration, Poach a prune in a sauce pan together with cinnamon stick, sugar, butter and water. let prune cooking for 10 minutes. Mean while, fried the almonds with oil until brown and let a side

- How to served, place the beef Tagine in a plate and decorated with fried almond, sesame seed and prune over the meat.
 

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