Lentil stew with lamb, pumpkin and shallots

Name: Lentil stew with lamb, pumpkin and shallots
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: 4 tbsp olive oil; 300 g lamb; 2 pc tomatoes; 1½ tsp paprika; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp salt; ¼ tsp ground cayenne pepper; 300 ml chicken stock; 300 g shallots; 250 g dry green lentils; 10 g fresh coriander; 2 tbsp harissa; 400 g pumpkin; 230 ml water

A hearty Moroccan-style lentil stew with tender lamb, sweet pumpkin and softened shallots, spiced with paprika and cumin.

20 min 551 kcal/serving serves 4

551kcal27gprotein63gcarbs23gfat

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🫒olive oil

🍖lamb

🍅tomatoes

🌶️paprika

🫙ground cumin

🧂salt

🌶️ground cayenne pepper

🍗chicken stock

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About Nargisse Benkabbou

Moroccan-Belgian chef and cookbook author specialising in modern Moroccan home cooking

Nargisse Benkabbou is a Moroccan-Belgian chef, food writer, and self-taught cook based in London, best known for her blog My Moroccan Food and her cookbooks, including Casablanca and Sweet Sugar, Sultry Spice. She is recognised for bringing traditional Moroccan cooking into home kitchens with an emphasis on approachable, well-tested recipes.

Her cooking draws on classic Moroccan staples such as preserved lemon, ras el hanout, saffron, and slow-cooked tagines, alongside pastries and sweets rooted in Moroccan tradition. She favours recipes that keep the flavour profiles of Moroccan cuisine intact while adapting techniques and ingredient lists for home cooks working outside Morocco, often streamlining methods that would otherwise require specialist equipment or hard-to-find ingredients.

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