Beef and fava beans tagine

Beef and fava beans tagine
This tagine dish is definitely one of my favorite, I just love fava beans and enjoy them so much, especially if they are well done and mixed with flavorful Moroccan spices like saffron.
Here are the ingredients you are going to need:
Ingredients
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 500 g of beef
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1 tomato
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric
  • A quarter of a teaspoon saffron
  • Salt to taste
  • Water
  • Two slices of preserved lemon
  • Olives for decoration
  • 450 g of fresh or frozen fava beans
  • 3 tablespoons chopped parsley
  • 2 potatoes cut into wedges
Instructions
  1. Now for the preparation:
    You can either use a cooking tagine or a pot in order to prepare this recipe, with a tagine, it is going to take a much longer time and you need to keep adding water over and over, however, if you decide to use a pressure cooker, it is going to taste nearly the same and you are going to serve this dish quite quickly.
  2. I’m going to give you the instructions for preparing this beans and beef tagine in the traditional way, using a clay Moroccan tagine.
  3. So, start by adding the oil and spices with the chopped onion to your tagine, very low heat.
  4. Then, add your meat and keep stirring.
  5. When the onion pieces have become soft, add your fava beans, herbs, garlic, and a little water, make sure you cover everything.
  6. Close the lid and let it cook for at least forty-five minutes on very low heat.
  7. When the meat and fava beans are nearly cooked, put strips of preserved lemon and olives all over your tagine and close the lid again.
  8. Keep cooking for fifteen minutes.
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