These Moroccan meatballs Tagine with Tomato Sauce with eggs – Kefta's tajine with eggs recipe, is very easy and quite cheap, and quick to make. This dish resembles homemade shakshuka-like tomato sauce.
Juicy, zesty meatballs simmered in a delicious tagine sauce – what more could you ask for?!
Add some extra kick with cayenne or harissa sauce, and if that's not enough for your taste buds then feel free to throw in some olives. Want to eat as the locals do? Poach an egg right into the hearty tomato sauce!
Moroccan meatballs Tagine with Tomato Sauce with eggs – Kefta's tajine with eggs
Ingredients
For the kefta meatballs
- 1 pound of ground meat beef or chicken
- ½ red onion finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons parsley chopped
- 2 tablespoons cilantro chopped
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- Red chili flakes a pinch
For the tomato sauce
- ½ tablespoon olive oil
- 3 to matoes
- ½ yellow onion grated
- 2 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 cup of water
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoon of olive oil
- 4 eggs
Instructions
- Preparing the meat:
- Mix all the meat ingredients together and mix well. Let marinate for a couple of hours at least. Roll the meat into small meat balls.
- Preparing the sauce:
- Cut the tomatoes in half and grate them. Disregard the tomato skin.
- On medium heat, drizzle the olive oil in your cooking pan and then add the grated onion, tomatoes, paprika, cumin, salt, and pepper. Cover the pan and let the spiced mix come to a boil.
- When the sauce starts boiling, add the meat balls in the pan. Dilute the tomato paste in the water and add it to the cooking pan. Cover the pan and let the it come to a boil.
- Let the meat cook for 30 minutes. When the meat is cooked, add the 3 eggs to the meat and sauce, cover the pan and let the eggs cook for 4 to 6 minutes.
- Sprinkle some cilantro over the tajine and serve it with flat bread. Enjoy!
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Every time I buy ground meat in the supermarket, I take a pound and I season the meat well, I make the meatballs and put them in the freezer.
When I am deciding what we are going to eat, this is an easy solution for us busy parents, it is a traditional Moroccan recipe, and the Kefta meatballs tajine with eggs is great even for picky eaters.
David @ Spiced says
This sounds like a delicious comfort food meal, Gaila! I mean those meatballs. With that mix of seasonings, they're bound to be delicious! Sign me up for a batch of this one, ok? 🙂
Petit Gourmet says
Hey David,
I'll sure sign you up for the next one!! it was really good! 😉
Karen (Back Road Journal) says
The Kefta meatballs sound so deliciously seasoned.