Beef Tagine (SCD, Paleo, GAPS)

I am obsessed with this rich, warm tagine dish. It's incredibly easy to throw most everything in the crock pot at the beginning of the day and just finish it up when you get home from work, and it leaves your house smelling amazing.


The first time I had this, we were at a family dinner at Hailey's and Dave's, as I've mentioned before, Hailey is the person who introduced me to SCD, so it's always a treat having dinner at their house .. as soon as I had one bite of this, I was obsessed. I literally had thirds. It's unreal good and you'd honestly have a hard time believing it was SCD unless somebody told you. I serve it up with some homemade yoghurt on a bed of cauliflower rice. If you have it, cilantro would be a nice addition, I rarely have cilantro around the house though.

Beef Tagine

Ingredients:

1-2 Tbsp ghee, butter or olive oil
1 lb Stewing beef
2 Tbsp cinnamon
1-2 tsp coriander
1 cm or thumb sized piece of fresh ginger (chopped)
2-3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
1/8 tsp each salt & pepper (or to taste)
12-15 dried pitted dates (soaked)
8 dried apricots (soaked)
1 Tbsp orange rind
2 Tbsp honey
2 red onions
2 Tbsp blanched almonds


Directions: 

Soak dates and apricots for one hour.

In a crockpot add ghee, garlic, ginger cinnamon, coriander, s&p along with your beef and set to high for 4 hours, or low for 5-6.


Once beef is tender, in a tagine or pot sautee the red onion and almonds in remaining ghee for about 1-2 minutes or until almonds are golden, transfer contents of crock pot, along with the dates, apricots, and orange rind into the tagine and add just enough water to cover. Place lid on tagine and simmer 15-20 minutes. Stir in the honey, season with additional salt and pepper (to taste) and simmer for an additional 10 minutes. Make sure there is enough liquid in the pot, you want the sauce to be syrupy and carmelized but not too dry, add more water if needed.

Let cool for about 5 minutes and serve on a bed of cauliflower rice, topped with homemade yoghurt, cilantro and additional slivered almonds!

Enjoy!