Moroccan Rice Recipes

Moroccan cooking layers warm spice with sweet-savoury contrast — slow tagines that melt meat and vegetables into fragrant, deeply spiced stews. When Moroccan cooks work with rice, they reach for cumin, coriander, ginger, saffron, preserved lemon and ras el hanout, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, braising and baking.

The everyday grain for half the planet — a neutral base that soaks up the flavours around it, from pilafs to fried rice. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, garlic, cumin, olive oil, ground cumin and chicken thighs. The dishes here span moroccan classics ready in as little as 35 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

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