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Family meals: Easy lamb tagine
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Family meals: Easy lamb tagine

15 ingredients 10 min Serves a family of 4 - 6 or makes 6-8 toddler meals openrecipes
Family meals: Easy lamb tagine

Sweet juicy apricots and tender butternut squash are a winner with kids and make for a delicious Middle Eastern family meal for toddlers through to teens and beyond

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1183
Calories
43g
Protein
58g
Fat
128g
Carbs

Counts 15 of 18 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 15 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Lamb 100g cooked 294
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Pine 1 oz (28g) 191
Couscous 1 cup cooked (157g) 176
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Honey 1 tbsp (21g) 64
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Walnut 1 walnut half (4g) 26
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Apricot 1 medium (35g) 17
Cumin 1 tsp ground (2.1g) 8
Cinnamon 1 tsp ground (2.6g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Saffron not in our table 0
Pumpkin not in our table 0
Seed not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion , finely diced
  • 2 carrots , finely diced (about 150g)
  • 500g diced leg of lamb
  • 2 fat cloves garlic , crushed
  • ½ tsp cumin
  • ½ tsp ground ginger
  • ¼ tsp saffron strands
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp clear honey
  • 100g soft dried apricots , quartered
  • 1 low-salt vegetable stock cube
  • 1 small butternut squash , peeled, seeds removed and cut into 1cm dice
  • steamed couscous or rice, to serve
  • chopped parsley and toasted pine nuts, to serve (optional)

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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