Iam very late in posting my final entry to IAVW-Moracco. As I was busy(after a long time, iam mentioning the word busy.) taking my kid to playschool. Also i had guest's and isnt this enough to explain my busy schedule's. This Moraccan ChickPea Stew is another recipe that i got hooked, from Vaishali's blog. I loved these stew with Whole Wheat Bread. To prepare this delicious Moraccan stew, you got to have Harissa paste, which you can make it in a jiffy, with just a pre-planning of soaking the Red Chilli's for Two Hour's.

Moraccan Chickepa Stew


How to make the Moraccan Chickpea Stew?

Dice a Onion, a Tomato, and mince 5 garlic pod's.Heat a tbsp of oil in your Pressure Cooker, add the diced Onion and minced garlic, saute it till the onions turn translucent. add chopped tomato and saute them. add little salt to it and mix well. add 1/2 tsp of cumin powder, 1/2 tsp of corriander powder and mix well. add the Chickpea(soaked for 12 hours) and mix well. Now add 2 tsp's of Harissa Paste and mix well with the veggie's. add a cup of water and pressure cook them upto 5 whistle's. Add Corriander Leave's to Garnish.

This is Best, served with Couscous and Bread's.

How to Make Moraccan Mint Tea?

Moraccan Tea


Tea is served during meal times in moracco. This is the drink, that is served, when the Moraccan's have guest's. Serving Mint Tea is considered as Hospitality. This is the Sweater Tea, with the flavour of Mint.

Frpm Wiki:

Tea is cleaned with boiling water before being dried. This removes dust from shipping and supposedly makes the tea less bitter. Tea and boiling water are combined, and may be boiled further for several minutes. After that, sugar and mint are added and mixed into a teapot with a long, curved spout. The sugar may also be combined with the tea and water in the first infusion, rather than with the mint after brewing. Using a traditional curved spout allows the tea to be poured into tiny glasses from a height of approximately half a meter to form a foamy head. It is then returned once or twice to the teapot for a good mix.

I loved the Tea with Ice-Cube's. Don't miss to try this Absolute Refreshing Tea.

Here is the Moraccan Feast, that goes on my part to IAVW-Moracco, event designed by Vaishali.


Moraccan Feast
Couscous with Seven Vegetable Stew, Mint Tea, Chickpea Stew and Bread.
Thank You all, for sending in your entries, i will do the rounup as soon as possible. You can even send me your entries till 6th July. as i will be getting ready with the roundup by the weekend.

This is also known as Moraccan Seven Vegetable Stew. as it has Seven Veggies, Onion, Tomato, Bell Pepper, Zucchini, Sweet Potato, Potato and Carrot's. Easy to make and its the best dip for the Bread's. also it accompanied well with couscous. The main ingredient in this stew is the Harissa Paste. Which is a spicy Chili North African Paste full of flavour's.

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If you are planning for a Moraccan feast, then this stew finds its place for sure. I loved the stew with Whole Wheat Bread's. I completely enjoyed the new taste of vegetable's cooked with spicy harissa paste. I got the Recipe from Vaishali. She suggested me Moraccan for IAVW. and Iam really enjoying hosting it and exploring it. Thanks Vaishali.

How to make Harissa Paste?

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Ingredient's for Harissa Paste

Soak 10 Dry Red Chilli's in a cup of warm water for about 2 whole hour's. Peel 6 Garlic Pod's and set aside. Grind the Red Chilli's, Garlic, 1 tsp of Cumin Powder, 1 tsp of Corriander Powder and 2 tbsp of Olive Oil. Grind them into thick paste.

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Homemade Harissa Paste
How to Prepare the Stew?

Dice a Onion, a Tomato, a Carrot, Half Zucchini(I bought, thinking it is Cucumber and later discovered it as Zucchini), Half Bell Pepper, 1 Potato, 1 Sweet Potato, and mince 5 garlic pod's.

Heat a tbsp of oil in your Pressure Cooker, add the diced Onion and minced garlic, saute it till the onions turn translucent. add chopped tomato, carrot, zucchini, bell pepper, potato and sweet potato and saute them. add little salt to it and mix well. add 1/2 tsp of cumin powder, 1/2 tsp of corriander powder and mix well.

Vegetables
Vegetables in Pressure Cooker

Now add 2 tsp's of Harissa Paste and mix well with the veggie's. add a cup of water and pressure cook them upto 3 whistle's. Add Corriander Leave's as Garnish.

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Moraccan Seven Vegetable Stew

Serve with couscous or Bread's. You can also prepare Chick Pea Stew, in the same way. I prepared and relished its phenomenal taste. soon i will be posting it.

How to Prepare Couscous?

Boil a Cup of water. Have a Vessel, and Put a cup of couscous in it. Add the Hot Boiled water to the couscous and cover it with a lid. leave it for 3 minute's. Open and the couscous is ready to serve.

This is my entry for IAVW-Moracco. Do send in your entrie's soon, as just 3 days are left for the last date to send in the entrie's.

Update:

Iam now sending this Delicious stew to A.W.E.D - Moracco hosted by Pavani.



As I have mentioned in my previos post, Moraccan Spice can be used for roasting vegetables like carrot's, Pumpkin and Eggplant's. First I tried Carrot Roast with just half a carrot, soon after tasting it, i made another batch with 2 big carrot's. It tasted so spicy, different, and it was also a flavourfull dish. Carrot's tasted good on absorbing the spicyness and the sweetness of carrot also helped them to taste better. Any carrot haters reading this, you got to try this to love carrots.

Carrot Roast with Moraccan Spice:

Carrot Roast with Moraccan Spice

For Recipe, you got to look here. as i dont have oven, i made this with my microwave+grill mode.

Eggplant Roast with Moraccan Spice:

Eggplant Roast with Moraccan Spice Mix

Eggplant Roast also tasted Good. I had them with Sambhar Sadham.

Moraccan Spice Mix is working great for me. Why dont you try?

Moraccan Food are real worth of trying it. i gathered the trust over moraccan food, after making moraccan spice mix. Moraccan spice mix is a mix of our Indian Garam Masala and Sambhar Masala. The flavour's in Moraccan Spice Mix speak's for its unique blend of spices.

This Moraccan Spice Mix can be added to vegetables like carrot, butternut squash, eggplant and roasted. also this can be added to Soup's. I Prepared Tomato Rice and Roasted Carrot's with these Moraccan Spice Mix. It really add's magical taste to all the dish'es. So here iam sharing my version of Moraccan Spice Mix.

Moraccan Spice Ingredients

Ingredients starting from bottom Left to Right:

Corriander Seed's - 1 tbsp
Cloves - 1 tsp
Cumin - 1 tsp
Cayenne/Chilli Powder - 1 tbsp
Black Pepper - 1 tsp
Green Cardamon- 3
Black Cardamom - 2
Cinnamon - 2'inch in length
Dry Ginger - 1'inch in length


All Spice - 1 tsp ( i did'nt have this)

The basic formula for the spice mix is, Cayenne/Chilli Powder and Corriander seed's should be of same amount and double that of other spice's.

How to Blend the Spices?

First Ground the Dry Ginger and sieve it to fine powder. (You can also use dry Ginger Powder Instead)

Moraccan Spice on MortarAdd all the ingredient's to your mixer grinder or mortor and grind them into fine powder.

Sieve them to remove the skin's of cardamom's. sieve them to fine powder. Store it in Air-tight Container.

Moraccan Spice

For Carrot Roast's, check kalyn's blog.

Now, This Moraccan Spice Blend is for IAVW-Moraccan on my Part.


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Have Fun and Enjoy...