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Spiced Apricot Lamb Tagine With Couscous Recipe


Spiced Apricot Lamb Tagine With Couscous Recipe
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An flavorful Moroccan-style tagine dish made with readily-available ingredients.

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Ingredients
  • For tagine:
  • 1lb lamb shank or chops
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1lb carrots, peeled and cut into 1" sections
  • 1lb parsnips, cut into 1/2" sections
  • 1 1/2 cup dried Turkish apricots
  • 1 large onion, halved and sliced thin
  • 3 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
  • 2 tsp fresh ginger, grated
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp cinammon
  • 1 tsp tumeric
  • 1 tsp coriander
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • Juice of one small lemon
  • 1 quart beef or other stock
  • Salt to taste
  • Mint or cilantro to garnish
  • For couscous:
  • 2 cups couscous
  • 2 1/2 cups stock or water
  • 2 tbsp butter or olive oil
  • One bunch of scallions, coarsely chopped
  • 1 cup raisins or currants
  • 1/2 tsp tumeric
  • A very generous pinch of salt
  • Sliced and toasted almonds to garnish

Directions
  1. For tagine:
  2. Season the lamb with salt and pepper and cook in a heavy sauce pan or Dutch oven over high heat in a little olive oil until browned; remove and set aside
  3. Adding more oil if necessary, add the onions, carrots, and parsnips
  4. If using whole spices (heartily recommended), toast and grind finely; set aside
  5. Once the onions begin to pick up some color, add in the ginger, garlic, and spices and continue to cook for a few minutes
  6. Add stock, lemon juice, honey, and apricots, return lamb, and bring to a boil
  7. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for at least two hours, until the meat is falling off the bone
  8. For couscous:
  9. In a medium sauce pan, heat butter or oil and cook scallions until soft
  10. Cover with water or stock, and bring to boil
  11. Stir in tumeric, raisins, salt, and couscous
  12. Remove from heat and let sit for 10 minutes, covered
  13. Fluff with a fork and serve

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Comments


This sounds SOOOOOOO Yummy! Thank you I can't wait to try it.


Thanks. Let me know how you like it!


YUMMY!


Tumeric is not really necessary for the lamb.its a color spice rather than a flavor spice for a dish with as many ingredients. not knocking the recipe, i have had tagine many ways and have created my own, this still sounds amazing!


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adding sweet potato and maybe large dice red pepper. and if possible preserved meyer lemons


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