Customer Reviews

Moroccan Modern

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I love to cook and I am an avid cookbook collector. I was looking for a "modern" moroccan cookbook for a long time. Finally I found one. All the recipies are well-thought-out, simple and delicious. Chef/Author Hassan M'Souli combines the traditional Moroccan recipes with the the innovative and fresh perspective of Australian way of cooking. Great for entertaining and cooking for the family.

My course was dessert at a recent dinner and I found the recipe for Moroccan chocolate cake in this book. It was an amazing hit at the dinner party and one of the best desserts we have ever had at our gourmet dinners.

I love the recipes in this book and the accompanying full-page photos of what each recipe is to look like. The recipes are varied, and the ingredients can be found in my market. The book is not only a book recipes one might try to taste the cusine of Morocco, but a book of recipes one would use every day.

I have been into Moroccan cooking for a few years now. This recipe book is easy to follow, and most of the ingredients can be found in your local supermarket. He even tells your how to make some hard-to-get ingredients from scratch, such as preserved lemons, harissa and za'atar.

If you and your family love sweet and spicy moroccan food, this is the recipe book for you.

I'm not really an amazing cook, but the recipes in this book are easy and look really impressive. The truth is, I bought it for the photographs, but it has become my go-to cookbook for parties and special meals.

Having my Moroccan husband love everything I have made from this book, is worth its' weight in Gold! My husband doesn't need recipes to cook because he has done it for 30 years (but still doesn't have consistent results when he cooks) but being an American, I needed to measure and have directions to follow. The Harira in this book was according to three Moroccans - the best they ever tasted and the dish with beef stew meat, artichoke hearts and fava beans (I substituted Lima beans) was also a huge hit.

This chef has clear directions that work. The tastes are outstanding, and he has artistry in his plating techniques. Great cookbook.

After receiving a tagine and not knowing quite what to do with it, I went right to Amazon for a cookbook. You will not regret purchasing this one for a fun and exotic look at Moroccan food, customs and recipes. I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars, as the tagine recipe section is a little slim. Although we don't eat meat or poultry, the fish recipes are great, and all can be made with what you find in American grocery stores, so no off the wall ingredients you will never find here. I even have enough confidence now to experiment with the recipes and adapt the lamb and beef and chicken ones to veggies and fish.

This book has excellent recipes in it, which are easy to follow and certainly impress anyone whom you might cook for. Thoroughly recommended.

I bought a Le Creuset tagine, and thought this cookbook would be full of recipes for cooking with it. Well, it isn't. I should have looked a little more carefully at the contents. It is a beautiful book, and the recipes all sound very tempting, but there is only a handful of recipes for a tagine, and even those are not really for cooking with a stove top tagine. You make them in a dutch oven or heavy saucepan, and then serve them in a tagine for presentation.

If you are looking for a book of tagine recipes, to be cooked in a tagine, look for another cook book.

I look the pictures and the recipes. The recipies are easy to follow.