Kefta meatballs and tomato sauce tagine with jalapeño & herb yoghurt sauce

Name: Kefta meatballs and tomato sauce tagine with jalapeño & herb yoghurt sauce
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 pc garlic; 400 g canned peeled tomatoes; 10 g flat-leaf parsley; 10 g coriander; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp paprika; ½ tsp salt; ½ tsp caster sugar; ¼ tsp black pepper; 2 pc spring onion; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 400 g minced beef; 1 pc onion; 1 pc fresh mint; ⅛ tsp cayenne pepper; 100 g Greek yogurt; 1 pc jalapeño pepper; 1 pc garlic; ¼ tsp salt; 1 tsp caster sugar

A comforting Moroccan-style tomato tagine with spiced kefta meatballs, lightly pickled onions and a fresh jalapeño herb yoghurt sauce.

35 min 353 kcal/serving serves 4

353kcal25gprotein17gcarbs21gfat

Nargisse BenkabbouView the original on mymoroccanfood.com More from Nargisse Benkabbou on Mello

🫒olive oil

🧄garlic

🍅canned peeled tomatoes

🌿flat-leaf parsley

🌿coriander

🫙ground cumin

🌶️paprika

🧂salt

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About Nargisse Benkabbou

Moroccan-Belgian chef and cookbook author specialising in modern Moroccan home cooking

Nargisse Benkabbou is a Moroccan-Belgian chef, food writer, and self-taught cook based in London, best known for her blog My Moroccan Food and her cookbooks, including Casablanca and Sweet Sugar, Sultry Spice. She is recognised for bringing traditional Moroccan cooking into home kitchens with an emphasis on approachable, well-tested recipes.

Her cooking draws on classic Moroccan staples such as preserved lemon, ras el hanout, saffron, and slow-cooked tagines, alongside pastries and sweets rooted in Moroccan tradition. She favours recipes that keep the flavour profiles of Moroccan cuisine intact while adapting techniques and ingredient lists for home cooks working outside Morocco, often streamlining methods that would otherwise require specialist equipment or hard-to-find ingredients.

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