Product Description

Le Creuset Tagine Cerise

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54170 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Colour: Cerise
• Brand: LE CREUSET UK LTD
• Model: L7473-00-67
• Released on: 2003-03-18
• Dimensions: 13.30" h x 15.20" w x 17.10" l, 10.00 pounds

Features

• Le Creuset Tagine Cerise

Manufacturer's Description
Use the Le Creuset Tagine on any heat source

The conical lid encourages fast condensing and basting of the food while it is cooking

Create tasty North African dishes or follow British and European recipes.

Customer Reviews

COOK the Moroccan Way
with this super tagine from Le Creuset.

Matt black enamelled cast iron base with ceramic funnel.
Approx. Size:-
Diameter: 30.5 cm/12"
Height: 25 cm/9.75"

Comfortably serves 4 people, in my opinion.

Predominantly aimed at those eager to try traditional North African cooking, the tagine is also suitable for the slow cooking of meat and vegetables.

Its 30.5 cm wide, shallow, matt black enamelled cast iron base conducts heat slowly and evenly and the glazed earthenware funnelled lid circulates the steam, from the requirement of only a small amount of liquid, helping to keep the moisture and therefore the delicious flavour of your ingredients locked in.

Easy to clean in hot, soapy water.
Does need a bit of space to store away, when not in use!

Boxed.
Use and care leaflet included featuring some mouth-watering recipes to get you started!

If looking for more inspiration, there is a whole chapter entitled:-

'Woks and Moroccan Tagines'

in the LE CREUSET dedicated book:-

THE CAST IRON WAY TO COOK

by Sue Cutts, which includes some informative notes on cooking with a tagine, as well as the simply delicious recipes:-

Fish Tagine with Couscous
and
Moroccan Chicken Tagine

Or Clay-Pot Cooking, from Jennie Shapter, has my favourite vegetarian recipe - 'Mixed Bean and Aubergine Tagine with Mint Yoghurt'.

Great cooking product
Great product, my wife & I saw these Tagines and experienced this traditional style of cooking whilst in Morocco, an experience not to be missed. The 5 spice long cook process makes food taste just fantastic, and when Amazon offered this product at just over forty quid inc. postage we had to have one.
Le Creuset cookware is brilliant, we have many saucepans & casserole dishes now and have never been disappointed, so go buy one! Also look out for the Le Creuset fondue set , another great fun product.
Diameter is 30.5 cm.

Updated version of Traditional Cooking Pot
On holiday in Essaouira, Morrocco, I was privileged to have been invited to dinner by one of the locals. My host involved me in every step of the meal, from taking me to see fresh flatbread being baked in huge wood-fired stone ovens, to buying produce at the local market, to preparing the tagine at a local cafe and then having the whole dish transported back home by a 'handyman' with a handcart.

Slow cooking with the conical funnel of the tagine resulted in a delicious, aromatic dish with the flavours and moisture of the ingredients locked in. Sat around the table, dining out of the communal dish with my host family was an absolute delight, an unforgettable experience. So when I eventually returned home I simply had to buy a tagine for myself; choice was limited and I ended up buying the Le Creuset model simply because it was the only one available at the time. Its main difference from the traditional cooking pot is that the base is made of cast iron rather than earthenware. I expect that this means that the dish will be more durable in the long-term. However, the cast iron means that it is less efficient at dissipating heat compared to the earthenware so that it tends to overheat unless the gas is kept really low. Even so, it's difficult to stop spilling over when used on the average domestic hob - the size of the dish sees to that! I agree with others who have said that this tagine would ideally cook a meal for 4 - not big enough for a really large party, but great for a special evening with friends. Looks good and very capable of producing authentic dishes!