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Ras El Hanout 2.0 Oz - Zamouri Spices

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While planning a tapas dinner, we sampled an excellent roasted pork tenderloin rubbed with Ras El Hanout, a Moroccan spice mixture of over 30 spices in its most traditional version. Even our local metropolitan spice emporium didn't have it. We were delighted to locate it from this seller on Amazon. A wonderful spice mixture from a vendor who shipped promptly. I look forward to trying it added to a stew and rubbed on other meats. Ras El Hanout 4 Oz By Zamouri Spices

As with many ethnic spice mixtures, there is no one recipe for Ras el Hanout. Each family and spice merchant has their own, highly treasured and guarded version of this traditional blend. This particular product is of high quality and arrived fresh (which isn't always the case with spices that I have purchased on-line).

Ras el Hanout starts off with strong, curry-like flavors that betrays it's Indian origins followed by subtle, traditional African flavors such as nigella and rosebuds. Although I was very pleased with this blend I do think that it is over-priced. I shop for most of my spices at ethnic markets (mostly Indian and Middle Eastern) and find their mixtures to be not only fresh but REALLY affordable. I am using this mixture with my new tagine and if I use it often enough I will seek out an African grocery store that has a similar product at a price that Moroccan expatriates will be willing to pay. If you don't live near a city that is large enough to have that type of store, then I think that this is the best Ras el Hanout available on-line. As a matter of fact, a tangine cookbook that I bought recently singled out Zamouri as THE source for this delicious, exotic blend.

Zamouri ras-el-hanout creates a wonderful cooking aroma and imparts a succulant but gentle Moroccan spice taste to any meat or stew dish!!

Since receiving this only ~2.5 weeks ago I have used it many times. Great authentic flavor and goes well with nearly anything. Flavorful but not overpowering in any way.

I personally enjoy it most on seared ahi tuna.

Highly recommended.

This spice is beautifully complex and adds a wonderful taste to whatever food you use it with. I was amazed at the exotic spices that it was made from. This isn't your everyday spice mix. I highly recommend it.

First off, I'd like to say that the seller, Zamouri Spices, now has all my spice business. Their prices can't be beat and you can buy most of them on Amazon. I bought this spice for a Moroccan lamb pie recipe that was published in Bon Apetit magazine. It was so good I'm thinking of having the recipe tattooed on my arm. I researched this spice and found that reviewers praised this mixture from Zamouri Spices for the amount of spices used in the mix. I found this to be true, as I saw some that only used 10 different spices, where Zamouri uses over twenty. Very flavorful results. If you need Ras El Hanout, this is the seller to buy it from.

I've tried this in a variety of cooking methods. What works best for me is sprinkling the mixture onto the food at service. I saute chopped onion, garlic, ginger and chopped cilantro stems in olive oil. When aromatic, add chopped tomato. Add cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg. To this I add zatar and Turkish Spice from Penzeys. Stir. Add red wine and stock. Cook for a few then add proteins (previously cooked) and vegs. Cook until tender. At serving, sprinkle on the Ras El Hanout.
Use your imagination for amounts.