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Tagine

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, tagine means: A North African cooking vessel with a shallow base and a tall conical lid; also its cooked dish.

In Turkish: tajin kabı, tajin

How it is used

Context shows whether tagine means the pot or the dish served from it.

Example sentences

  1. The tagine's conical lid stood beside its shallow base.

    The possessive form refers to parts of the cooking vessel.

  2. The menu offered a vegetable tagine with couscous.

    Here tagine names a finished dish rather than equipment.

Common collocations

  • tagine pot
  • vegetable tagine
  • braiseTo brown food first and then cook it slowly in a covered pot with a small amount of liquid, so that tough cuts become tender.
  • menuThe list of dishes a restaurant offers, with their descriptions and usually their prices; also the planned set of dishes for a meal or event.

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