Vegetable Tagine and Couscous

The plan was to blog one recipe a day during 2010, so why am I doing two today? Well mainly cos I'd forgotten I hadn't already blogged the carrot and jeresulam artichoke soup recipe previously and partly cos I created this tagine today and didn't want to forget the ingredients...

So, for 4-6 servings you need:
A mix of vegetables (I used 2 carrots; 1/2 bulb fennel, 1 large parsnip, 2 leeks, 1 onion, half a head celery).
1 tin chopped toms
3 tsp harrisa
1 tbsp moroccan spice mix (or cumin and corriander with some oregano if you can't find any)
1 tin drained chickpeas

Roughly chop the veggies. Saute the onion and leek in some olive oil for few mins till tender. Then add everything else and cover. Sautee for a further 5 mins or so. Then add everything else along with about 200ml water.

Simmer for 20 mins until very tender. Check consistency of sauce. If it's too thin add some tom puree. If it's too thick add some more water.

Serve with couscous and some chopped corriander/mint/parsley. You can add some dried apricots to the stew too if you want but N doesn't like that much and I was planning to serve this with the winter fruit compote for pud so didn't want to overdo the dried fruit!