Spiced Vegetable Tagine With Cinnamon Honey Lamb

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1/2 lemon, juice of
• 4 lamb fillets, backstraps
• salt & fresh ground pepper
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 bunch spring onion, halved and trimmed
• 1 kumara, peeled and sliced into chunks
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 1 lemon, juice and zest of
• 500 ml vegetable stock
• 1 red capsicum, chopped
• 4 tomatoes, quartered
• 4 zucchini, cut into 4cm chunks
• 300 g canned chick-peas, drained and rinsed well
• couscous, to serve

Recipe

• 1 for lamb:.
• 2 combine cinnamon, honey and lemon juice in a bowl.
• 3 place lamb in ceramic dish and add cinnamon marinade.
• 4 season with salt and pepper and place in fridge to marinate for 30 minutes.
• 5 preheat oven to 200 degrees celsius
• 6 remove lamb from fridge and transfer to baking tray.
• 7 cook lamb in oven for 10 minutes for rare or up to 30 minutes for well done. remove from oven to rest.
• 8 for tagine:.
• 9 heat olive oil in heavy based saucepan.
• 10 add spring onions and kumera and cook for 5 minutes.
• 11 add cinnamon sticks, honey, garlic, lemon rind, lemon juice, vegetable stock and capsicum. cover and bring to boil.
• 12 reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes.
• 13 add tomato, zucchini and chickpeas and cook for 15 more minutes until vegetables are tender.
• 14 to serve:.
• 15 slice lamb and serve with couscous, tagine and chopped preserved lemons and chopped chives.