The Quickest Lamb Tagine

Great that it was a quicky, as I had already bitten off Bert's nose earlier in the day and his head was going to be next.  The dieting is starting to get to me, as in, bad mood. I want to eat BREAD and PASTA, if not then I want POTATOES.

Ingredients
serves 3 normal portions, or 4 sparrows  (530 calories or 400)

• 1 onion (56 grs), chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, grated
• 230 grs carrots, peeled, cut into 3 cm chunks and quartered
• 400 grs courgette, cut in a similar size to the carrots
• 6 merguez sausages (360 grs), cut into 3 cm pieces (I didn't bother skinning them)
• 1 tin of peeled tomatoes (400 grs), chopped up
• red pepper (95 grs), cut into strips
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp honey (that just wasn't enough... I added 2 tsp stevia)
• chilli, to taste
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• seasoning
• fresh coriander leaves and stalks, to taste

Preparation

• Heat the oil in a suitable pot, sautee the onion with the carrots
• Add the garlic, chilli, courgettes and sausages
• Sautee for 5 more minutes
• Add the tomatoes plus water (the water from rincing the tin)
• Simmer, with lid on, for 15 minutes, till veg are al dente
• Add the peppers for 5 more minutes and the cinnamon
• Season with seasalt, honey/sugar/stevia and maybe chilli powder, to taste
• Finish off with coriander.

You can obviously eat with couscous. That's what I served Bert. I, however, had it without.
It really warmed the cockles of my heart.  You can now come closer again, I won't bite off your head. Promise ;)


Patricia xxx...x