Moroccan recipes · Main dishes
Fish tagine with swordfish and chermoula
From the Moroccan television cook Choumicha
- Course
- Main dishes
- People
- serves 4
- Ingredients
- 15
- Steps
- 6
- Occasion
- Ramadan, Eid, Wedding, After a birth
- Origin
- all of Morocco
People
The amounts at the start of each line are scaled and rounded; the source’s amounts are for serves 4.
Ingredients
- For the chermoula:
- For the vegetables:
Method
Variations
- According to the study for WIPO and OMPIC, the fish is traditionally cooked on reeds laid in the bottom of the tagine so that the heat reaches it more gently; today fennel, celery or carrot sticks are also used.
- For the study’s chermoula, a large bunch of coriander is pounded in a mortar with garlic and coarse salt, then paprika, hot pepper, cumin, lemon juice, olive oil, water and tomato purée are stirred in.
More about Tagine
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Last checked on 27 Oct 2026.