How to make tray baked lamb tagine

This easy tray bake is heady with the flavours of Marrakech

Tray baked lamb tagine

Cook in:25 mins

Serves 4

500g Desiree potatoes, peeled and diced
8 lamb chops, fat trimmed
1tsp rosemary
2tbsp olive oil
2 garlic cloves, sliced
1 red pepper, sliced
1 yellow pepper, sliced
2 tsp harissa spice
12 black olives
50g dried apricots, roughly chopped
150ml lamb stock
1 small bag of baby spinach
1tbsp chopped flat leaf parsley

Preheat the oven to 220C/gas 7. Boil the potatoes in salted water for 5 minutes, drain.

In a frying pan, add 1 tbsp of the olive oil, the drained potatoes and cook for 5 minutes over a medium heat. Now add the garlic and continue frying. Next goes in the peppers and harissa spice and continue cooking for 5 minutes. Season with a little salt and transfer the potatoes to an oven tray. Pour over the lamb stock, add the apricots and olives and pop into the oven for 10-15 minutes.

Meanwhile add the remaining 1tbsp of olive oil and cook the lamb chops until browned on both sides, you may need to do this in 2 batches. Season the lamb.

Take the tray out from the oven, stir in the spinach, pop the lamb chops in the tray, sprinkle over the rosemary and cook for a further 10 minutes and serve at the table in the tray.

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