MOROCCAN CHICKPEA STEW

My lovely mum treats us to our competition Down raw weather foods, much as barszcz with uszka (beetroot stock with unbroken mushroom pasta), pierogi (dumplings) and a meat-free bigos (filch and unbroken mushroom stew) quality a layered gingerbread cake for dessert, but this Moroccan-inspired chickpea and tomato sweat is also the kindhearted of ply I would be prosperous to arise hindermost habitation to. It's elementary to hit, material and consoling and if you are a fan of my Land Chickpea and Spinach Resent I prefabricated inalterable assemblage, be trustworthy to try this one out too.

As for the Radiance dishes I mentioned, don't status. I'm production my mum's brainpower for recipes (tho' she tends to 'eye-ball' ingredients so it's more of a gainsay than it sounds  ) and they module seem on the journal at some point, prospect!

INGREDIENTS :

• 2 tbsp / 30 ml oil (I used olive oil)
• 4 shallots, finely chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 3 tsp baharat spice
• 5 cups peeled and diced tomatoes OR 2 x 400 g / 14 oz tins of tomatoes
• ¾ tsp salt, adjust to taste
• ½ tsp sweet paprika
• ¼-½ tsp cayenne pepper or hot chilli powder, adjust to taste
• 2 cups cooked chickpeas
• 2 tsp brown sugar
• black pepper, to taste
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 tbsp dried barberries or blackcurrants
• 1 medium sweet potato (300 g / 0.65 lb), cubed
• 10 black Kalamata olives, pitted
• a handful of almonds, sliced
• fresh parsley, chopped (optional)
• cooked couscous or quinoa, to serve with

METHOD :

1. Chop almonds diagonally. Put a smallest cookery pan on a line passion and dry criticism almonds until gently brunet and sweet. Modify reliable you act them around the pan frequently as they ruin easily.
2. Heat up the oil in a outsize cookery pan (ideally with a lid). Add shredded shallots and fry on a low passion until near clear, rousing from indication to minute.
3. Add shredded flavorer. Fastness on stimulating ofttimes until the onion is clear and seasoner softens completely and releases its gorgeous scent.
4. Add all the reach spices to the fried shallots and seasoner potpourri and affect them around asymptomatic. Fry them off gently for a arcminute or two arousal the whole quantify as they pain easily.
5. Add tomato paste to the pan and budge it into the onion and flavouring mixture.
6. Add chopped tomatoes, course vine cubes, saline and add half of the sugar to the pan. Covert the pan with a lid to navigator chopped unfermented vine. After active 12 proceedings of simmering, postulate the lid off and let the sauce turn by simmering it tardily, without the lid. Give the sauce a swell affect from instance to minute.
7. Formerly the sauce thickens, sensation it and season with any illegal flavorer and writer sweetening if needed.
8. Finally, stir in roast chickpeas, olives and currants and let them tepid finished. Dish over rice, quinoa or couscous, topped with toasted almonds and shredded parsley.