Moroccan Chermoula Marinade - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 tablespoon cumin seed
1 tablespoon coriander seed
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (or a 10cm stick cinnamon)
3 garlic cloves, chopped
6 parsley sprigs, finely chopped (thick sprigs)
6 coriander sprigs, finely chopped (cilantro, thick sprigs)
2 teaspoons ground sumac (or zest of 1 large lemon)
1 tablespoon mild paprika
2 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons light olive oil
1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper

Preparation

Heat a frying pan and dry-fry the cumin and coriander seeds with the cinnamon until aromatic. Grind with a pestle and mortar, or in a spice grinder. Then either put all the ingredients in a blender and whiz them up, or pummel the whole lot in the pestle and mortar, adding one ingredient at a time in the above order. Keeps well, refrigerated for a week.