Tagine Moroccan

The tagine Title famous Moroccan cuisine, and has been for centuries the National Moroccan meal, 

, and a tagine Moroccan symbol of hospitality, and was and still is the main means of cooking so that it can accommodate both Culinary Arts and Moroccan dishes.

Vtagen synonymous with the art of eating appetite taste when Moroccans, and through featuring cooking skills and talent sophistication, even become part of the viewer that Tatt spaces kitchens in homes and restaurants.

He says Mohammed Amorawi professor researcher in the history of the Moroccan Turat The tagine part of the system of Moroccan heritage, Moroccans say they knew tagine since the sixteenth century by the Turks, and the origin of the word Tagine Persian pronounced "Taahjan" means meat eaters vegetables and gravy.

Ambassador without portfolio

The tagine ambassador of Morocco abroad, In many countries, combined with the name of Morocco Btagen, but his image has been shaken recently in more than one country because it contains, as they say a high percentage of lead, by article Allimi used in polishing tagine or Tzlejeh contain a proportion of lead, and is often used tagine Polisher for decoration and not for cooking.

He says Tazarna Radwan maker and seller of ceramic products that foreigners confuse tagine allocated to cook a tagine used for decoration, and explains that the fact that Tagine decor includes a high percentage of lead opposite Tagine cooking that glitters material respects international standards, and marketed Radwan evidence considered more credible analyzes Laboratories, he believes that Moroccans fathers and grandfathers cook their eating in tagine and did not to take them any harm.

Tagine address food safety
Due many Moroccans تشبت the cooking in a tagine for its health benefits, Cooking in a tagine is through steam as cooking tagine is usually on coal and slowly so as not subjected to thermal shock that lose food all food components.

The tagine has maintained its popularity as a synonym for food safety, and for centuries has been used materials in the tagine Tabaip industry and does not contain any chemicals.

It was necessary, according to some manufacturers to keep pace with traditional tagine modern developments entered the world of decoration, however, the Moroccan authorities are trying to restore an image tagine subjected to control and enforce the use of polishing materials free of lead.


He says Anis Peru and Industry Minister traditional Moroccan industry is tagine is according to international standards that define the proportion of lead in polishing materials in five milligrams of lead per liter, but some countries such as Australia, for example dealing with special and determine the proportion of lead in less than four milligrams per liter.

Moroccan minister did not deny the lack of respect some traditional craftsmen approved standards, but says they constitute the exception.

Control first and then sustenance
And to ward off any possible repercussions, the Ministry of Industry imposed undergo all sorts of traditional tagine and cost control local laboratories mark conforming to international standards on each product casserole with preventing the importation of polishing materials that contain a high percentage of lead.