{"id":1883,"date":"2013-11-10T16:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2013-11-10T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T16:06:59","slug":"quick-lamb-tagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/?p=1883","title":{"rendered":"Quick Lamb Tagine …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… Pan-fried Aubergine & Cumin Crunch<\/span><\/h4>\n

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This is the fourth of five meals I plan to do this weekend.\u00a0 Ok, so two were breakfasts but nevertheless it\u2019s quite a bit of cooking over just two days.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I have my friend Peter from church over for lunch today.\u00a0 As is often the case it\u2019s a last minute invite \u2026 I probably ought to be more organised.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is another one of the meals that looks great and colourful and one I have been looking forward to cooking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The cooking goes pretty smoothly.\u00a0 In general the methods are pretty standard and common to many of the 15 Minute Meals.\u00a0 There is couscous, easy and quick to do; it\u2019s just pouring two mugs of water over one mug of couscous a bit of seasoning \u2013 the rest it does itself. There is meat, flattened a bit and seasoned with spice. There are tomatoes cooked with spring onions, a preserved lemon, some chilli and saffron, all pretty standard fair for a 15 Minute Meal.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve got familiar with the style of cooking and the means of working with the ingredients, the cooking process has got better.\u00a0 Or smoother.\u00a0 Tidier is probably the best description.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really think I\u2019m cooking the meals much quicker, but its now pretty rare that my kitchen looks like a scene of devastation after the event, a common occurrence at the start of this project.\u00a0 I now do quite a bit of tidying as I go.\u00a0 Today was one of those meals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The surprising part of the meal was how the aubergine is cooked.\u00a0 You microwave it! I should say at this point that the recipe called for two small aubergines.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t get small ones so I had just one large one.\u00a0 I upped the cooking time in the microwave a little.\u00a0 However I was still dubious that this cooking method would work.\u00a0 It did work though. The aubergine was soft and basically cooked when it came out the microwave.\u00a0 It is then finished in the frying pan alongside the lamb.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was a very tasty meal.\u00a0 As it\u2019s a meal for four, that I cooked for just two of us, I have a nice lunch for tomorrow. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just ten meals left to go now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who with:<\/strong> Peter\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How Long:<\/strong> Fifteen Minutes and Thirty Seconds\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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