Crock Pot Beef Marrakesh

Fabulous tagine! Made as directed, including the 1 cup of dried apricot. Very sweet and earthy tones. I highly recommend serving with basmati rice. Also, to save a dish, I "removed" the cooked onion and beef to the crockpot itself! Just seemed the thing to do! Thanks, RubberDucky AU! Made for PAC Spring 09</b>.

This was very good! I have heard of something similiar made with red meat and apricots so I was intrigued enough to try this. Much to my surprise my whole family liked it. I did not add the additional dried apricots but next time I will. I was afraid that the added dry fruit in addition to the sultanas would make it to sweet. But the Moroccan spices countered the apricot nectar and made this more savory than sweet and I like contrasting flavors in a main dish. I did convert the kg. to American ounces to make sure I had the amount of meat correct for the amount of spices and 3.3 pounds is a lot of meat but while my family of 8 usually eats about 2.5 pounds of beef at one meal they polished this off in one meal! The sauce did not strike me as thin. It was similiar to au jus and went well with rice pilaf.

I'll make this again, and re-rate, but for now, I have to only give 2 stars. I did use a bit less beef, and DH hates dried fruit/currants, so I left out the dried apricots and sultanas. I used the amount of spice noted, even though I had less beef, because we like lots of spice/flavor. Even still, there is really something missing. We cannot figure out what it is, but there is surely something not there. I even had added red chili powder and salt....still, lacking. I'll try it again, after researching what I can do to make it better. Still, it's a good recipe to build upon.

This is very good. I did use 2 tsps of garlic. As for the review from WhatExit, 3.3 pounds is a lot of meat. Perhaps she misread the kilo sign.

Flavor was good, though a bit soupy and I would add more beef since there was not nearly enough.