African Lamb Couscous From Mauritania Recipes

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MOROCCAN BRAISED LAMB WITH COUSCOUS

For Claude Lelouch and other French Jews from North Africa, couscous (a term that refers both to the stew and to the grain) is comfort food. When Suzon Meymy started cooking as a young bride living in Paris, her native Morocco seemed terribly far away, so she wrote to her mother, asking for recipes. "My mother was so unhappy that I was in France, so she sent me cooked chicken and flans. What she didn't know was that they didn't travel well, so we couldn't eat them when they arrived." When Suzon cooks lamb couscous today, in her small apartment in a Paris suburb, she uses her mother's techniques. "My mother, who was the couscous-maker of Mogador, spent all her time in the kitchen," she told me. "I watched her and my sisters cook for every festival in our town. They were exhausted from so much cooking. I saw them falling apart with fatigue." Suzon, a very good cook, takes the time to make this lamb stew only when her whole family is present. What I like about this amazing recipe for couscous is that the vegetables are not overcooked. Serve the lamb with couscous (see page 270) and a delicious Moroccan squash dish (see page 302)

Yield at least 12 servings

Number Of Ingredients 20



Moroccan Braised Lamb with Couscous image

Steps:

  • The day before serving, season the meat heavily with salt and pepper, and sear it in a frying pan with one tablespoon of the oil. Then preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Put the meat in a pot, add a little water, and braise, covered, for about 2 hours, or until tender. Set aside to cool, and then refrigerate overnight.
  • Also the day before serving, heat the remaining oil in another pot, and sauté the leek and the onions. When the onions are translucent, add the turnips, carrots, ginger, cinnamon, turmeric, ras el hanout, salt and freshly ground pepper to taste, and garlic. Cover the vegetables and spices with water, and simmer, covered, until the carrots are tender.
  • The next day, cut the lamb into 2-inch chunks, and put it in the pot with the vegetables. Add the zucchini. Simmer slowly until the zucchini is just cooked but still bright green. Adjust seasonings, and stir in the harissa sauce. (I also serve more at the table, so that people can adjust the heat to their taste.)
  • Stir together the harissa, couscous broth, salt and freshly ground pepper to taste, cinnamon, and Spanish pepper in a small bowl. Serve with the couscous.

2 shoulders of lamb (about 5 pounds each, including the bone)
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 leek, cleaned and diced
2 onions, peeled and diced
4 turnips, halved
4 carrots, peeled and cut into rounds about 1/4 inch thick
2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon ras el hanout
4 or 5 cloves garlic, diced
4 zucchini, each cut into 4 pieces
1 to 2 tablespoons harissa sauce, or to taste (see following recipe)
1 tablespoon harissa (see page 33)
1 cup couscous broth (see page 270)
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 heaping teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 hot Spanish pepper, diced
(about 1 cup)

TRADITIONAL NORTH AFRICAN COUSCOUS (THE REAL WAY!)

This is a recipe for a fantastic traditional couscous dish from Algeria which can also be found in Morocco and Tunisia. Please note: the couscous is to be steamed and not soaked...we call this Ta'am bil marga hamra.

Provided by Um Safia

Categories     Stew

Time 2h25m

Yield 8 portions, 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 22



Traditional North African Couscous (The Real Way!) image

Steps:

  • Finely chop the onion and mince the garlic & place it in a large heavy bottomed pan with the meat or chicken, ras el hanout & a little olive oil. Fry gently to seal the meat/chicken. I use my pressure cooker pr large cast iron casserole for this.
  • Chop the carrot, parsnip and courgette into 6ths. Cut the potato into 1/4's and roughly chop the swede. Chop khourchef or celery into roughly same size as carrot. (Peel the carrots, potato, parsnip and swede).
  • Add the vegetables to the meat along with 1L of water and turn up heat so they begin simmering. If using the chilli add it now, along with salt and pepper. If cooking in a regular pan then cook for 40 minutes like this. If using the pressure cooker as I do then 20 minutes will be enough.
  • Add the tomatoes, chick peas and dried mint and 1/2L more water or enough to create a 'stew' consistency.
  • Return to heat and cook in pan for further 30 minutes and if using pressure cooker then cook on med to high for a further 25 minutes.
  • Take a 500g pack of medium couscous and pour into a gas'a if you have one. If not find the biggest bowl you have. Pick out any 'bits' and sprinkle water - about 50mls and a tsp of salt over the couscous and using your hand rub 1/2 tsp of oil through the couscous to stop it sticking. Fill a couscousier or steamer half full with the couscous (as it swells).
  • When you 1st notice steam coming from the couscous, count 10 minutes. After that remove from the steamer, place in gas'a and use your hands to 'open' the couscous (rub it together between hands to remove clumps). This is very hot and you need to keep wetting you hand with cold water and sprinkling a little on the couscous.
  • Return to steamer when thoroughly opened. Repeat process of steaming and opening twice more.
  • Finally remove from steamer and place back in gas'a. Open for final time and rub a tbsp of ghee or smen into the couscous along with 2tsp of butter or margarine. Add salt to taste.
  • Serve the couscous in the gas'a with sauce on top as traditional style or in tagine etc. Usually we place the meat/chicken in place - 1 for each guest and decorate the couscous with the veg before ladling some of the sauce over the top.
  • If you used the chilli, put it on a plate and let people help themselves to it!

8 lamb chops or 8 skinless chicken pieces, on bone but skin & fat free if possible
1 large onion
3 garlic cloves
2 medium carrots
2 medium courgettes (zucchini)
2 large potatoes
1/4 swede or 1/4 turnip
1 parsnip
2 -3 stalks celery (or khorchef)
1 cup chickpeas, drained
2 teaspoons ras el hanout spice mix
salt & pepper
1 pinch dried mint
1/2 tablespoon sunflower oil or 1/2 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 cup of tinned plum tomato, liquidised
1 1/2 liters water
1 large green chili pepper (the Algerian ones) (optional)
500 g medium couscous
1 tablespoon ghee (smen)
1 1/2 tablespoons margarine
1 glass water
olive oil

SLOW ROAST RAS EL HANOUT LAMB & COUSCOUS

Let your oven do all the work with this shoulder of lamb. It's heady with North African spices and the couscous is soaked in the pan juices

Provided by Good Food team

Categories     Dinner

Time 4h40m

Yield Serves 6-8

Number Of Ingredients 12



Slow roast ras el hanout lamb & couscous image

Steps:

  • Using a pestle and mortar or a mini chopper, mash or chop the garlic with a generous pinch of salt, then add the lemon juice, ras el hanout spice mix and olive oil, then pound or chop to a rough paste. Use a small knife to make small incisions all over the lamb. Sit the lamb in a large, shallow casserole dish or deep roasting tin, then rub the paste all over the lamb and into the cuts. Leave at room temperature for 1 hr, or better still cover and chill overnight.
  • When ready to cook, heat the oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Scatter the onion wedges around the lamb, then cover the dish with a lid or tightly with foil and roast for 3 hrs. Remove from the oven and uncover. Stir the onions and baste the lamb in the juices, then turn the oven up to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and continue to roast the lamb, uncovered, for 25-30 mins until browned.
  • Lift the lamb and onions onto a board to rest and put the kettle on. Stir the couscous and raisins into the lamb dish so they're coated in the roasting juices. Pour over enough boiling water from the kettle to just cover the couscous, then cover the dish and leave for 5 mins. Uncover and fluff the couscous up with a wooden spoon, then stir through the chickpeas, chopped herbs and preserved lemon or lemon juice, and season to taste. Bring the lamb, onions and the couscous to the table to serve.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 814 calories, Fat 39 grams fat, SaturatedFat 17 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 57 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 12 grams sugar, Fiber 6 grams fiber, Protein 56 grams protein, Sodium 0.4 milligram of sodium

5 garlic cloves
1 lemon, juiced
6 tbsp ras el hanout spice mix (shop-bought or see tip, below)
2 tbsp olive oil
small shoulder of lamb (about 2kg)
2 red onions, cut into large wedges
400g couscous
100g raisins
400g can chickpeas, drained
small bunch of parsley, chopped
small bunch of coriander, chopped
1 preserved lemon, finely chopped or the juice of ½ lemon

L'HAM LAHLOU - ALGERIAN / NORTH AFRICAN SWEET LAMB DISH.

This dish is traditionally cooked in Algeria for eating during Ramadan and on special ocassions. It is hardly ever eaten as a main course, but as a small dish after the main. This recipe freezes well. In my family, it's only my husband that eats it so I freeze individual portions for him. I tend to play around with the recipe and change the fruit around and add a little extra liquid. This is just one of hundreds of variations of this recipe, I will post a few alternatives later.

Provided by Um Safia

Categories     Lamb/Sheep

Time 1h10m

Yield 8 small(ish) servings, 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11



L'ham Lahlou - Algerian / North African Sweet Lamb Dish. image

Steps:

  • Melt the butter in a heavy bottomed pan. add the lamb and saute over a low heat for around 5 minutes.
  • Add the water, sugar and cinnamon and mix well. Cook on a moderate heat for approximately 40 minutes.
  • Add prunes, raisins, almonds, pear and mazhar. Simmer for 15 more minutes. Add the orange juice and mix well before serving (make sure you have a good mix of ingredients in each portion).

2 1/2 lbs lamb, cubed
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 cups water
1/4 cup sugar
16 prunes, soaked and drained (ready to eat)
2 tablespoons raisins
2 tablespoons almonds
1 pear, peeled and cubed
1/4 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon orange blossom water (mazhar)

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