nutritional information

Per Serving (1 cup stew and 1/2 cup couscous):

  • Calories: 400
  • Protein: 15 g
  • Total Fat: 5 g
  • Saturated Fat: <1 g
  • Carbohydrates: 81 g
  • Cholesterol: 0 mg
  • Sodium: 378 mg
  • Fiber: 15 g
  • Sugar: 29 g
Vegan

Chickpea and Date Tagine

Chickpea and Date Tagine

Serves 8

North African tagines often combine sweet and savory foods to play off the spices used to season them.
  • 1 Tbs. olive oil
  • 1 large onion, diced (2 cups)
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced (4 tsp.)
  • 1 tsp. ground cumin
  • 1 tsp. ground coriander
  • 1 tsp. ground ginger
  • ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1 15-oz. can crushed tomatoes
  • 3 cups cooked chickpeas or 2 15-oz. cans chickpeas, rinsed and drained
  • 1 cup whole-wheat couscous
  • 1 cup pitted dates, halved
  • ¼ cup lemon juice
  • ½ cup chopped cilantro

1. Heat oil in saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, and cook 10 minutes, or until starting to brown, stirring often. Stir in garlic, cumin, coriander, ginger, and cinnamon, and sauté 30 seconds. Add tomatoes, chickpeas, and 1/4 cup water; simmer 10 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, toast couscous in small saucepan over medium heat 5 minutes, or until fragrant. Add 1 3/4 cups water, and bring to a boil. Remove from heat, cover, and let stand 5 minutes.

3. Stir dates and lemon juice into tagine, and season with salt and pepper, if desired. Serve over couscous, sprinkled with cilantro.

December 2011 p.55

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comments

I cut the dates in half and omitted the cinnamon. I ate it in a bowl with a dollop of non-fat greek yogurt. Awesome! Will be eating it over salads and with goat cheese in the days to come.

Christina - 2013-03-20 19:56:54

This is delicious! I omitted cilantro, since I'm not a fan of it, but I made everything else exactly the same. In the future, I will probably use fewer dates since the dish ended up just a little too sweet for me and replace with more chickpeas. The taste is very complex with lots of spiciness, tartness, and sweetness in every bite, but so easy to make.

Kelly Corn - 2013-01-23 19:59:48

AMAZING just the way it is!! YUM!

Victoria Loughman - 2013-01-04 05:00:30

Very simple, rather quick, meal. I followed the ingredients entirely except i used Pomi marinara (i won't use canned tomatoes and the store had nothing else in redipak) & had no cilantro for garnish. I added 1/4c chopped dried apricots with the dates. My non-veg husband loved it and asked that I make it regularly! I will search harder for crushed tomatoes for the next time.

Leslie Ganczewski - 2013-01-01 14:29:05

This was amazing! I added frozen spinach, a couple tablespoons of tomato paste, fresh ginger instead of powdered, curry powder instead of coriander, and chicken broth instead of water. I also added the chopped dates right after the tomatoes so that they simmered longer. This was delicious and simple!

Dana - 2012-12-18 04:11:22

Changes I made to this dish: I used half of an onion, 1/4 tsp cumin and one can of chickpeas. The amount of onion for the recipe seemed like a lot so I used half. I'm not a huge fan of cumin its very powerful and can take over all the other flavors so only used 1/4 of the recommended amount. Lastly, one can of tomatoes was not enough juice for two cans of chickpeas so I cut my chickpea amount in half. I cooked this dish for two and had enough for two more meals. I really enjoyed this dish.

reyna - 2012-11-15 03:05:59

First time making a dish like this and I loved it! This dish has a nice sweet and savory combination; the lemon juice elevates the flavor of the tomatoes and spices. Very good dish. Not hard to make and doesn't require a lot of time.

reyna - 2012-11-15 02:56:14

no salt?

sara - 2012-11-13 05:36:52

I would double the tomato and add veggies. And do 1 1/2 cups of cous cous. And it definitely won't feed 8 as a main dish. MAYBE 4 people with smallish appetites. But it was yummy.

Katie - 2012-11-11 03:00:03

I took the advice some of you wrote in the comments and doubled the spices and garlic. It was delicious; I thoroughly enjoyed it last night for dinner, and today as left-overs. I have one question though... I have never been a huge fan of dates because I find them a little too sweet. Instead of throwing the dates and lemon juice in at the end of cooking, what if I soaked the dates for 30 min or so in the lemon juice and then threw that in, would that cut the sweetness of the dates at all? Sweet dates or not, I recommend this recipe 100%! And definitely double the spices and garlic.

Jaime - 2012-09-26 18:13:47

Is 13/4 cups of water a typo? Usually that would be denoted as 3 ¼ cups. It's confusing written that way.

Erin Owen - 2012-06-25 10:32:50

This, is AWESOME! Everybody who I made it for has really liked it!

Greg - 2012-06-07 09:13:24

I loved this! The cinnamon and dates add unique flavors for something different for dinner. Aida, I think the recipe calls for 1 3/4 cups of water, not 13 fourths.

Katie - 2012-04-24 14:07:25

Disappointing. It looks so good! Too many onions and they need to cook longer. More spices and tomatoes

Julie - 2012-04-18 18:10:14