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Butternut squash and chickpea tagine with chermoula and lemons
Chermoula is a spicy North African sauce, often used as a marinade, combining herbs, garlic, spices, lemon juice and olive oil
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Ready in 2 hours
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Cooking time 1 hour 15 minutes
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Prep time 45 minutes
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Serves 4
Ingredients
- 2 large carrots, peeled
- 450 g butternut squash, peeled and seeded
- 2 large courgettes, topped and tailed
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large onion, halved and thinly sliced
- Peel from 1 small preserved lemon, finely chopped
- 750 ml vegetable stock
- 1 tbsp honey
- 6 vine-ripened tomatoes, skinned and thickly sliced
- 8 new potatoes, cut lengthways into quarters
- 400 g tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 12 pitted black olives
- 1 small handful mint leaves, to garnish
For the chermoula
- 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- 1 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp harissa paste
- 1 pinch saffron
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh mint
- 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
Method
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1
Put the ingredients for the chermoula into a mini food processor and blend into a smooth paste. Preheat the oven to 220°C, fan 200°C, gas 7.
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2
Cut each carrot into 4 chunky pieces. Cut the butternut squash into small chunky wedges and the courgettes diagonally into 2.5cm thick slices.
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Heat the oil in a large casserole pan. Add the onion and carrots. Cover and cook gently over a medium heat for 5 minutes, until the onion is soft but not browned. Uncover and add half the preserved lemon, 2 tablespoons of the chermoula paste, the stock, honey, tomatoes, butternut squash, potatoes and ½ tsp of salt. Bring to the boil, cover with foil and a close-fitting lid, and transfer to the oven. Cook for 45 minutes, then remove the casserole dish from the oven and lower the temperature to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas 4. Stir the courgettes and chickpeas into the tagine, then cover and return to the oven. Cook for a further 30 minutes, or until all the vegetables are tender.
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4
Stir the rest of the chermoula paste and preserved lemon into the tagine and adjust the seasoning to taste. Scatter with the black olives and mint leaves and serve with some buttered couscous.
To cook in the slow cooker
Use 500ml stock (instead of 750ml). When all the ingredients are brought to the boil, transfer to a 6.5-litre slow cooker and cook for 2 hours on high. Add the chickpeas and courgettes and cook for a further 1 hour on high. Add the remaining chermoula and preserved lemon, olives and mint and serve straight away.
