Spiced Tomato Dipping Sauce - Moroccan Style
"This Moroccan style dipping sauce is delicious on anything from traditional Moroccan food to grilled chicken, shrimp, or steak. Perfect with Moroccan Chicken Bundles. It would also be a good accompaniment to many of the purhcased (frozen) appetizers such as chicken fingers, cheese sticks etc. Found on another site, but was originally from Gourmet magazine."
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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1 1/2 cups
ingredients
- 1⁄3 cup onion, finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped
- 3⁄4 teaspoon cumin
- 1⁄2 teaspoon hot paprika
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 pinch cayenne
- 1 pinch ground cloves
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 1 (15 ounce) can tomatoes, coarsely chopped (reserve juice)
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
directions
- Saute onion, garlic, ginger and spices in olive oil in large saucepan over moderately low heat.
- Stir frequently until onion is softened, about 4 minutes.
- Stir in vinegar and simmer over moderately low heat about 1 minute.
- Add tomatoes with juice and brown sugar.
- Increase heat slighly and simmer, stirring occasionally until slightly thickened, about 30 minutes.
- Cool slightly.
- Puree sauce in blender or food processor until smooth.
- Be careful when blending hot liquids.
- Serve at room temp or slightly warmer.
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Reviews
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I used this recipe as a base sauce for a lamb tagine. My family loved it.
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Great sauce. Served it with Recipe #120343. I thought it was better cold, more of the flavors came through. -
Very easy to make and definitely tasty. I served it warm with Grilled Moroccan Chicken #120343 (great suggestion Barb R!). I put a little sauce on the chicken and dipped garlic bread throughout the meal. It also tasted great the next night served over potatoes with leftover chicken, tomato wedges, and green peas. A very versatile sauce that I will be making again. -
Fantastic recipe!!! We did this with Grilled Moroccan Chicken #120343 and Moroccan Vegetable Salad #129323 and it was just wonderful, so spicy and such a compliment to the entire "Moroccan Theme". Thanks so much, Martha, great recipe!!
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I made and cubed some garlic bread to dip into this as a snack. It was really tasty. Though the combination of flavors is a bit different than the typical American cuisine, they come together nicely and compliment eachother well. I'd like to try it with grilled shrimp too. Thanks for sharing this recipe Martha :)
