North African cuisine Archives - falafelandcaviar.com Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:15:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Try This Homemade Harissa Paste and Let Your Tastebuds Go Wild https://falafelandcaviar.com/try-this-homemade-harissa-paste-and-let-your-tastebuds-go-wild/ Sun, 03 May 2020 06:53:00 +0000 https://falafelandcaviar.com/?p=11932 Harissa is a North African chili paste that is simply divine. It’s healthy, vegan, and bursting with flavor, so make it today and add it to all your favorite dishes! Ingredients: 4 ounces of any dried chiles  1 teaspoon of caraway seeds 1 teaspoon of coriander seeds 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds 3 or 4 […]

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Harissa is a North African chili paste that is simply divine. It’s healthy, vegan, and bursting with flavor, so make it today and add it to all your favorite dishes!

Ingredients:

  • 4 ounces of any dried chiles 
  • 1 teaspoon of caraway seeds
  • 1 teaspoon of coriander seeds
  • 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds
  • 3 or 4 cloves of peeled garlic
  • 1 teaspoon of  kosher salt
  • 2 tablespoons of olive oil
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Homemade Harissa 2 ways. Harissa ~25 dried Chile peppers of varying spice (depending on how spicy you like it) 1 T cumin seeds 1.5 T coriander 1 T caraway seeds 3 crushed garlic cloves 1 T salt 1 T paprika 1 T fresh lemon juice 8 T EVOO 4 T water +Drizzle of EVOO (save for end) Rehydrate dried peppers ~25 of varying spice (I used sudanya or shata peppers). Place in glass container cover with boiling water for minimum 30 minutes. Once they’re rehydrated and cooled, drain the water. Wearing plastic gloves, remove seeds by gently slicing through the peppers and creating a slit to run the seeds out. While peppers are soaking, in a pan toast 4-6 minutes until fragrant : 1 T cumin seeds 1.5 T coriander seeds 1 T caraway seeds Add spices to food processor with 3 crushed garlic cloves, blend into a paste. Add stemmed and seeded rehydrated peppers to food processor, blend again. Add 1 T salt 1 T paprika (heaping) 1 T fresh lemon juice -Blend- While blending drizzle in 8 T EVOO 1 tablespoon at a time. Alternate with 4 T water (or more if you want it thinner) Keep blending until reaching desired consistency. Place in a glass container and cover with drizzle of olive oil just so top layer is covered to help preserve it. Herby harissa add: 4-5 dried rose buds 1 tsp cardamom pods toasted Fresh mint leaves (6-10) Fresh Cilantro Fresh Parsley (few leaves of each) #homemade #harissa #moroccan #moroccancooking #spicy #spicyharissa #notashkenaz #herbyharissa #redhotchilipeppers

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Instructions:

  1. Put the chilies in a bowl and cover with boiling water for 30 minutes.
  2. In a dry pan, toast the caraway, coriander, and cumin seeds on low heat until they’re fragrant. 
  3. Put the spices in a spice grinder or use a mortar and pestle. 
  4. Strain the chilies but save the water in a separate bowl. 
  5. Take the stem and seeds out of the chilies and put them into a food processor with the spices, garlic, and salt. 
  6. Run the food processor and drizzle in olive oil until a paste forms. If it seems too thick, add in the reserved water. 
  7. Taste it, season it more if necessary and then pour it into a jar and cover with a little more olive oil.
  8. Use for up to a month, but make sure you top it with extra olive oil every time you take from it!

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You Can Make This Incredible North African Spice Blend at Home https://falafelandcaviar.com/you-can-make-this-incredible-north-african-spice-blend-at-home/ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:07:27 +0000 https://falafelandcaviar.com/?p=7879 Ras El Hanout is a North African spice blend used often, especially in Moroccan cooking. The translation from Arabic is head of shop, or top shelf in other words. This spice blend can work with just about anything, from vegetables to all sorts of meats, and especially to bulk up plant-based proteins. If you can’t […]

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Ras El Hanout is a North African spice blend used often, especially in Moroccan cooking. The translation from Arabic is head of shop, or top shelf in other words. This spice blend can work with just about anything, from vegetables to all sorts of meats, and especially to bulk up plant-based proteins. If you can’t find Ras El Hanout at your local grocery store, you can always make it at home easily, and it’ll probably be even fresher than store-bought.

Ingredients

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The ingredients for this spice blend are:
1 teaspoon of ground cumin
1 teaspoon of ground ginger
1 teaspoon of salt
3/4 teaspoon of black pepper
1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of coriander
1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon of ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves

Recipe

Once you’ve gathered all the spices, simply put them all into a bowl and whisk well.

You can also easily double or triple this recipe if you want to give them out as gifts, or if you know you’ll be using a lot.

This spice blend works especially well with lamb, as it is eaten often in Moroccan cuisine. You can also modernize it by using it in lamb burgers instead of regular beef!

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ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> North African cuisine Archives - falafelandcaviar.com Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:15:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Try This Homemade Harissa Paste and Let Your Tastebuds Go Wild https://falafelandcaviar.com/try-this-homemade-harissa-paste-and-let-your-tastebuds-go-wild/ Sun, 03 May 2020 06:53:00 +0000 https://falafelandcaviar.com/?p=11932 Harissa is a North African chili paste that is simply divine. It’s healthy, vegan, and bursting with flavor, so make it today and add it to all your favorite dishes! Ingredients: 4 ounces of any dried chiles  1 teaspoon of caraway seeds 1 teaspoon of coriander seeds 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds 3 or 4 […]

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Harissa is a North African chili paste that is simply divine. It’s healthy, vegan, and bursting with flavor, so make it today and add it to all your favorite dishes!

Ingredients:

  • 4 ounces of any dried chiles 
  • 1 teaspoon of caraway seeds
  • 1 teaspoon of coriander seeds
  • 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds
  • 3 or 4 cloves of peeled garlic
  • 1 teaspoon of  kosher salt
  • 2 tablespoons of olive oil
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Homemade Harissa 2 ways. Harissa ~25 dried Chile peppers of varying spice (depending on how spicy you like it) 1 T cumin seeds 1.5 T coriander 1 T caraway seeds 3 crushed garlic cloves 1 T salt 1 T paprika 1 T fresh lemon juice 8 T EVOO 4 T water +Drizzle of EVOO (save for end) Rehydrate dried peppers ~25 of varying spice (I used sudanya or shata peppers). Place in glass container cover with boiling water for minimum 30 minutes. Once they’re rehydrated and cooled, drain the water. Wearing plastic gloves, remove seeds by gently slicing through the peppers and creating a slit to run the seeds out. While peppers are soaking, in a pan toast 4-6 minutes until fragrant : 1 T cumin seeds 1.5 T coriander seeds 1 T caraway seeds Add spices to food processor with 3 crushed garlic cloves, blend into a paste. Add stemmed and seeded rehydrated peppers to food processor, blend again. Add 1 T salt 1 T paprika (heaping) 1 T fresh lemon juice -Blend- While blending drizzle in 8 T EVOO 1 tablespoon at a time. Alternate with 4 T water (or more if you want it thinner) Keep blending until reaching desired consistency. Place in a glass container and cover with drizzle of olive oil just so top layer is covered to help preserve it. Herby harissa add: 4-5 dried rose buds 1 tsp cardamom pods toasted Fresh mint leaves (6-10) Fresh Cilantro Fresh Parsley (few leaves of each) #homemade #harissa #moroccan #moroccancooking #spicy #spicyharissa #notashkenaz #herbyharissa #redhotchilipeppers

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Instructions:

  1. Put the chilies in a bowl and cover with boiling water for 30 minutes.
  2. In a dry pan, toast the caraway, coriander, and cumin seeds on low heat until they’re fragrant. 
  3. Put the spices in a spice grinder or use a mortar and pestle. 
  4. Strain the chilies but save the water in a separate bowl. 
  5. Take the stem and seeds out of the chilies and put them into a food processor with the spices, garlic, and salt. 
  6. Run the food processor and drizzle in olive oil until a paste forms. If it seems too thick, add in the reserved water. 
  7. Taste it, season it more if necessary and then pour it into a jar and cover with a little more olive oil.
  8. Use for up to a month, but make sure you top it with extra olive oil every time you take from it!

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You Can Make This Incredible North African Spice Blend at Home https://falafelandcaviar.com/you-can-make-this-incredible-north-african-spice-blend-at-home/ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:07:27 +0000 https://falafelandcaviar.com/?p=7879 Ras El Hanout is a North African spice blend used often, especially in Moroccan cooking. The translation from Arabic is head of shop, or top shelf in other words. This spice blend can work with just about anything, from vegetables to all sorts of meats, and especially to bulk up plant-based proteins. If you can’t […]

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Ras El Hanout is a North African spice blend used often, especially in Moroccan cooking. The translation from Arabic is head of shop, or top shelf in other words. This spice blend can work with just about anything, from vegetables to all sorts of meats, and especially to bulk up plant-based proteins. If you can’t find Ras El Hanout at your local grocery store, you can always make it at home easily, and it’ll probably be even fresher than store-bought.

Ingredients

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwl0TAon4Lu/

The ingredients for this spice blend are:
1 teaspoon of ground cumin
1 teaspoon of ground ginger
1 teaspoon of salt
3/4 teaspoon of black pepper
1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of coriander
1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon of ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves

Recipe

Once you’ve gathered all the spices, simply put them all into a bowl and whisk well.

You can also easily double or triple this recipe if you want to give them out as gifts, or if you know you’ll be using a lot.

This spice blend works especially well with lamb, as it is eaten often in Moroccan cuisine. You can also modernize it by using it in lamb burgers instead of regular beef!

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