Mustapha’s Tangia Marrakshia

Tangía is known as a ‘bachelor’s’ dish in Marrakech, for with a tangía – a two-handled amphora-shaped earthenware vessel, glazed on the inside – the cook has no need of a kitchen or stove. Tradition has it that the tangía is taken to the hammam (steam bath) where it is numbered and baked in the ashes for 8 hours, or overnight. But both my friends, Mustapha and Abdeslam, assure me that 2½ hours to 3 hours is long enough – and prov