Donna Howell slow-cooker lamb and sweet potato tagine with couscous recipe

Donna Howell served up a tasty Slow-cooker lamb and sweet potato tagine with couscous on Eat Well for Less?

Thw ingredients for the tagine are: 600g lamb neck fillet, trimmed of any excess fat and cut into 3cm chunks, 2 tbsp harissa paste, 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped or grated, 1 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp ground coriander, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tsp smoked paprika, 1 onion, roughly chopped, 90g dried apricots, roughly chopped, 90g drained pitted green olives, 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes, 1 x 400g tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed, 500g sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks, 350ml chicken stock, from a cube, 90g low-fat plain yoghurt, 1 small bunch coriander, roughly chopped, ½ tsp sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

For the couscous: 200g couscous, 1 lemon, zest and juice, 1 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp sweet smoked paprika, 1 red onion, finely chopped, 2 green peppers, deseeded and roughly chopped, ½ chicken stock cube, 250g cherry tomatoes, halved, quartered if large and 1 small bunch mint, leaves picked and roughly chopped.


See recipes from the series in the book titled: Eat Well for Less: Quick and Easy Meals, available from Amazon now.