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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal584
  • fat24g
  • saturates9g
  • carbs65g
  • sugars0g
  • fibre3g
  • protein32g
  • salt1.4g
    low

Method

  • step 1

    Dry-fry the pine nuts or almonds in a large pan until lightly toasted, then tip onto a plate. Add the oil to the pan, then fry the onion and cinnamon together until starting to turn golden. Turn up the heat, stir in the lamb, fry until the meat changes colour, then tip in the rice and cook for 1 min, stirring all the time.

  • step 2

    Pour in 500ml boiling water, crumble in the stock cube, add the apricots, then season to taste. Turn the heat down, cover and simmer for 12 mins until the rice is tender and the stock has been absorbed. Toss in the pine nuts and mint and serve.

RECIPE TIPS
MAKING IT LIGHTER

Use chicken with chicken stock instead of lamb and currants instead of apricots.

IF YOU WANT TO USE A SLOW COOKER...

Take your time over this. Toast the nuts according to step 1 and set aside. Fry the onion, cinnamon and spices together for 5-10 mins. Turn up the heat and add the lamb and fry until it changes colour. Tip into the slow cooker with the rice and stir. Pour in the water, crumble the stock cube, add the apricots and season. Cook on Low for 3-4 hours until the rice is tender. Toss in the nuts and mint to serve.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2005

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A star rating of 3.7 out of 5.53 ratings

Honeygran

Do not do the hob version either! The lamb was expensive but came out tough, and it was so bland. If only I’d read about the missing spices before, and cooked the lamb gently for longer.

Honeygran

The hob version doesn’t have spices other than cinnamon stick, so no it was not obvious to me.

gfdinners

I just attempted to make this using the slow cooker method given, and it was a complete disaster. After three hours cooking the rice was half slimy mush and half completely uncooked. I've done the dish previously on the hob (including the missing spices - I tsp each turmeric, cumin and coriander by…

mattaporterePZF91aJ

Followed this recipe to the letter (slow cooker version) and what came out was a bland, gloopy mess. There’s no way rice can be cooked for that long. I added lots more stock but it was unsalvageable. Utter rubbish, total waste of good ingredients. DO NOT FOLLOW THE SLOW COOKER RECIPE

LittlestHobo2

Note that the Slow Cooker recipe says 'Onion, Cinnamon and Spices' even though there are no other spices in the ingredients. Elsewhere this exact recipe also includes "1 tsp each cumin ; coriander and tumeric". I think this line is missing from this recipe, and explains why most people found it…

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maggiebleksley

As this version is added to the original recipe, I would have thought it pretty obvious that 'spices' refers to the ones already mentioned in that one. I think most people would realise that.

nicanlee

If I could give the slow cooker recipe zero, I would. Absolute slop, £15 of lamb went in the recycle bin. Take it down and never write another recipe.

roxannep

slow cooker???

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