Lamb tagin with peas and artichoke

Tonight menu at Riad Laaroussa:

3 Moroccan salads ( aubergine with tomatoes, zicchini with garlic and parsley, sweet carrot).
Lamb tagine with peas and artichoke.
Stawberrys with orange flower.

This night we give you recipe of lamb tagine with peas and artichoke:

Ingredients:

3lbs meat cut in pieces.
2 onions, sliced.
1/2 tsp ginger.
1 tsp pepper.
1/2 salt;
1/2 saffran.

Put the meat and onions sliced in a covered pan over medium for 1 hour.
When is cooked take out the meat and add :
3lbs peas.
1 spring parsley chopped
1 kg artichoke
Put the artichoke in pan alone with 2 big cups of watter,1tsp salt,2 tsp flower.
Cooked in médium heat for 10 min.

Arrange the meat in the centre of the dish with the peas in a ring round it and put the sauce over it with artichoke.

Enjoy

Today there's not much activity in the Riad, the important event is that we are welcoming some guests from another riad for dinner.

The menu tonight:

Moroccan salads(carrots with suggar and cinnamon, green beans,peppers).
Chicken tagine with apricots and almonds, vegetarian couscous.
Custard milk with orange flower.

Enjoy

Lamb tagine with sweet tomatoes

Ingredients:

2kg meat.
2 big onions sliced.
2 cloves of garlic, crushed.
1 cup of tea oil olive.
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp saffron.
1/2 tsp pepper.
1/2 tsp salt.
Water.
While the meat are cooking 60 minutes, over medium heat.
Peeled and seeded and diced 10 of tomatoes in a frying pan over a low heat.
Cook until all the juice has been absorbed and the tomatoes begin to caramelise, then put 1/2 glass suggar and 1 tsp cinnamon. Stir for a few minutes and keep hot.
Arrange the meat on a dish and cover them with the tomatoes puree, put the sauce over them
and put some sesame seeds on top.

Enjoy

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Hello everybody,
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New day at Riad Laaroussa

Yesterday Sabah come back from her holiday,she 's very happy because she spened a good time with her family.

The menu for today:

Moroccan salads( carrots and oranges, taktouka, sweet potatoes with dried grapes)
Lamb tagin with pears
Milk pastilla with almonds.

Enjoy

Calm Sunny Day

to day, Riad laaroussa is empty!!! , there is just one guest that resides at the cream room which has a fire place in order to make the room so worm.

the guest feels that he is at his own home , because all staff is funny and helpful. After the breakfast in front of the fire place, our client has a sun bed on the roof!!!

hoping for your coming too,

have a nice day.

A good vacation for Sabah

Hello every body

How nice and warm to be with you in order to give you some new recipes from the heart of Riad Laaroussa. Even if i am alone because my friend Sabah is in vacation during a week
As usual today i must share with you our Moroccan delicious kitchen composed of : vegetable briwattes of shesse beef, taginewith cardoon, on dessert i prepare the delicieuse apple pie.

Enjoy

One day in the kitchen with Samira and Fatima

Samira and Fatima prepare the Moroccan cookies .

When we come back from the market,we beging to prepare the menu for dinner.
We chopped onion ( without tears) peeled quarted and cleaned the quinces. We also chopped
celery and parsley quite badly so it had to been finished.Samira and Fatima preparing two savory dishes for this evening , plus the pancakes ( baghrir) and cake for tomorrow's breakfast.

Menu for today:

Moroccan soup harira+ dattes.
Lamb tagine with vegetables ( carrots, potatoes , zucchini , dried pea)
Custard milk.

Enjoy

One day in the market with Samira

In the morning after breakfast she went with guests to the market.
They bought some eggs, avocados,apple, banana, oranges , celery leag , parsly , quince, lettuce ,
radish , some meat and bread.
They tasted good olives and they bought it.

The menu for today at riad Laaroussa:

3 moroccan salads (tomatoes with avocados,zucchini with parsly, broad bears with coriand and garlic).
Lamb tagine with quince with suggar.
Fruits salad.


Enjoy

The new year's eve party

Happy new year for every body, we want to tell you about our party at riad laaroussa.

We set up a table of 25 guests.
It started around 21h:30 with a glass of kir royale. The french women were dancing.
They insipired the english, american and dutch among us to join.
Finally, we sat for a dinner of braised whole goat with ratatouille and fried cauliflower. The traditionel dessert (milk pastilla with almonds) arrived after midnight with champagne. By this time we were well into the
party , assisted for three hours by traditional musicians and the non traditionel sounds of ray charles and James Brown.

We had a fantastic time.