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n. 1 A Moroccan stew in which the ingredients are cooked slowly in a shallow earthenware pot with a tall, conical lid; normally served with couscous. 2 The pot in which such a dish is traditionally cooked.
Wikipedia
A tajine or tagine ( Arabic: الطاجين) is a North African/ Arabian dish which is named after the earthenware pot in which it is cooked. It is also called a Maraq/marqa in North Africa and the Middle East.
Usage examples of "tajine".
To put the necessary distance between tajine and a mundane stew, one should conjure up all that is savory, succulent, and delicately perfumed.
We were sitting round the trestle table in the dining-hall, chewing our way through a tajine stew, cooked by Cyrus and Latifa, and nobody was feeling much like talking.
Served with the roast kid was a silver-edged clay bowl of saffron rice, plus a dish of red couscous, a chicken tajine where the juices had been sweetened with honey and reduced to a sticky syrup, fried red mullet with marjoram, and fresh matlou bread, which Lady Nafisa asked Raf to break and portion out in order of precedence.
A tajine is traditionally cooked in a clay vessel over fire, sometimes at the bottom of a couscousiere, where its vapors steam the semolina grains called couscous.