Today's recipe is Tangia, it's a specialty dish from

Marrakesh (Morocco) where my sister Hayat lives.

She gave me this recipe which I really like.

I hope you like it too.
I dedicate this video to her,

she is a very kind person and

a good cook as well.


Tangia transforms simple food to something exotic.

The aroma that comes from this dish while cooking

will make you hungry even if you just ate.

The scent of the ground coriander, roasting lamb

(or beef) and preserved lemon gives the feeling

that you are sitting in the middle of Jammaa lefna

 (the famous town square of Marrakesh).

I invite you to watch the video

at the end of the article

Tangia should not be confused with a tagine.

A tagine is also a slow-cooked stew and

the name is applied both to the stew and

to the shallow dish with its conical lid

 in which it is cooked.
  

A tangia is a dish traditionally cooked by men,

it is a specialty dish of Marrakesh. Traditionally

the man of the house will prepare the Tangia

in the morning, drop it off at the neighborhood

bathhouse on his way to work and pick it up

several hours later on his way home.

Tangia must be cooked in the ashes of the fires

that burn   underneath the city's

hammams (public bath).