How To Make A Delicious Moroccan Lamb Tagine Recipe (rajiv tiwari)

It's always nice to try a recipe from a different cuisine altogether. Everybody who loves to cook, loves experimenting with recipes from places all over the world. This Lamb Tagine recipe is an authentic Moroccan dish that promises flavour and aromas that you'll never have experienced before.

Ingredients:

* ? cup dried chickpeas
* 2 ? garlic cloves (Chop 1 ? , keep remaining 1 whole)
* ? large cinnamon stick, broken
* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 1 ? pounds of cubed lamb shoulder
* Kosher salt
* Ground black pepper
* ? diced onion
* 2 ? teaspoons Ras-el-Hanout
* ? tablespoon chopped ginger
* ? cup canned diced tomatoes with juices
* 1 ? cups of chicken stock (with low salt)
* ? cup halved dried apricots
* Steamed couscous
* Chopped cilantro

Directions:

1. The pre-preparation of your recipe starts the night before. Place chickpeas in a saucepan and cover with water. Soak it overnight.

2. To start cooking the recipe, remove all the water from the saucepan and the whole garlic clove and cinnamon stick. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium and cook till the chickpeas are tender. Drain and keep separately.

3. In another pot, heat oil over a medium flame. Season the lamb with salt and pepper and cook until the lamb is brown on all sides.

4. Keep the lamb aside in a bowl for a later part of the recipe. Add onion to pot, reduce the flame and add salt and pepper. Keep stirring and saut? until its soft and just starting to brown. Add the chopped garlic, Ras-el-Hanout and ginger and stir for another minute.

5. Add in the tomatoes and lamb and bring it to a boil again. Slowly pour in the chicken stock and keep boiling.

6. Reduce the flame to and cover, leaving a small opening. Let it simmer and keep stirring occasionally, until lamb is tender and well cooked. This can take some time.

7. Add in the chickpeas and simmer till heated thoroughly. Add the apricots and simmer some more. Add salt and pepper according to taste. Your lamb tagine recipe is done!

8. Serve couscous on a large plate making a hole in the middle. Put the tagine in the centre and sprinkle cilantro all over.

Your tasty Lamb Tagine recipe is ready to be served. Make sure you serve the recipe hot to enjoy it best and show it off to everybody you want to cook for!

Rajiv Tiwari is an out and out gourmet whose love of food has made him travel to all top food destinations. In this bouquet of articles Rajiv discusses some quick tips on food recipes, and shows us how you can make people enchanted with lipsmacking food recipes. recipe