Servings

6

Ready In:

50mins

Good For:

Lunch or Dinner, vegetarian option

Ingredients

  • 400g tin chickpeas

  • 1onion-chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 30ml olive oil
  • 1 sweetcorn on cob (or tinned)
  • 70g cauliflower florets
  • 1 carrot-diced
  • 20g parsley-chopped
  • 150g kumara-diced
  • 50g spinach
  • 2tsp tomato puree
  • 400g tinned tomatoes
  • 6 leaves basil-ripped
  • 1tsp paprika
  • 1tsp Moroccan spice
  • 1stick celery-diced
  • 1/2 zucchini-diced
  • 50g white cabbage-cut into medium pieces
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric
  • 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
  • 100ml water
  • salt and pepper

Step by Step Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 185°C.

Now if you have a tagine pot then this is the perfect cooking vessel, if not don’t worry at all just use a casserole pot or tin with foil.

Step 2

 In a large frying pan over a medium heat, add olive oil and then carrots, celery, kumara and onion. Cook for 3mins.

Add sweetcorn, garlic, cumin seeds, turmeric and bayleaves. Cook for 3 more mins over a medium heat.

 

Step 3

Add tomato puree to pan and cook for 2mins, stir through and season with salt and pepper. 

Add tinned tomatoes, basil, parsley, chickpeas, cabbage and cauliflower. Increase the heat to high, bring to a simmer and then pour contents into a tagine pot or other. 

Step 4

Add Moroccan spice and water to mixture and cover with a lid or foil. Place into the oven to bake for an initial 20mins.

After 20mins, add the zucchini and put back into the oven for another 20mins.

Step 5

After 40mins cooking, taste and adjust the seasoning.

Put spinach into the tagine and put the lid back on for 2mins after which stir through the wilted spinach. 

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Step 6

This is an ideal dish for either a light lunch with a salad or as a dinner with couscous, flatbread and a fermented relish like lemon, lime or mango.

 

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