Meat and vegetable tajine

Meat and vegetable tajine
Khaltuma Zitouni

For 5 people:

1 kg meat (chicken, goat or lamb) or fish
1 onion, 300 g carrots, 300 g potatoes
300 g tomatoes
2 handfuls green olives
a pinch of saffron
1 small cup argan oil
salt, pepper
Preparation and cooking time:
1 hour and 40 minutes

Heat the argan oil in the tajine pot. Add the meat or fish and brown with half an onion, the pepper, salt and saffron. Leave on a low flame for a quarter of an hour for the first stage of cooking. Mix the meat and add the restof the onion. Clean and dice the carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. Add all the vegetables to the meat which is continuing to cook and is occasionally topped up with water. Add the green olives and increase the flame. Leave to cook for another hour. At the end you can add a little raw argan oil.
Serve in the terracotta tajine pot with Arab bread.