Lamb Tajine

Ingredients for 4 people:

  • 1 medium onion
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • 800 g. leg of lamb, deboned and cut into large chunks
  • Salt, black pepper
  • ½ coffee spoon of saffron
  • ½ cinnamon stick
  • 1.5 tbsp. thick honey
  • 200 g. pitted prunes
  • ½ teaspoon of cinnamon powder
  • 75 g fried almonds
  • ½ tbsp toasted sesame seeds


Preparation:

  1. Place the peeled and quartered onion in the blender. Blend on speed 8, 30 seconds.
  2. Carefully place the blade guard on the blades.
  3. Add the oil and cook on speed 1, 120 degrees, 7 minutes.
  4. Add the lamb.
  5. Season with salt and pepper and season with the saffron and cinnamon stick.
  6. Cook at speed 1, 120 degrees, 5 minutes.
  7. Moisten with a glass of water and cook at speed 1, 90 degrees, 3 hours. Every half hour, make sure that the stew is not lacking water. If necessary, add more.
  8. Soak the plums in water.
  9. Add them to the stew through the lid aperture about 15 minutes before the end of the cooking time. Be careful with the steam when you unplug the lid.
  10. Strain with the steamer basket.
  11. Return the liquid to the jar. Add the honey and a pinch of cinnamon powder.
  12. Select “sauce”, speed 1, 105 degrees, 12 minutes without the measuring cup plug (with the meat in the steamer on top of the jar to keep it warm).
  13. Mix the meat with the liquid. Stir in the almonds and sesame seeds when serving.

Tips…

  • You can prepare this same dish with chicken or make it vegetarian with a mix of harder vegetables (carrot, pumpkin, sweet potato, parsnip, turnips…).
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