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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
People4

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.

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Last checked on 27 Oct 2026.

  1. Choumicha (Choumicha Chafay), choumicha.ma: Tajine d'espadon aux légumes (gelesen in der Fassung des Internet Archive vom 30.09.2018). https://web.archive.org/web/20180930/http://www.choumicha.ma/recette/539-tajine-d-espadon-aux-legumes.html. Checked on 30 Oct 2026.
  2. OMPI (WIPO), Projekt mit dem marokkanischen Amt für gewerbliches Eigentum OMPIC; Verfasser Kamal Rahal Essoulami: Etude exploratoire sur le secteur du tourisme gastronomique au Maroc (2021). https://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ip-development/fr/docs/scoping-study-morocco.pdf. Checked on 27 Oct 2026.
  3. OMPI (WIPO), Projekt mit dem marokkanischen Amt für gewerbliches Eigentum OMPIC; Verfasser Kamal Rahal Essoulami: Etude exploratoire sur le secteur du tourisme gastronomique au Maroc (2021). https://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ip-development/fr/docs/scoping-study-morocco.pdf. Checked on 27 Oct 2026.