Lamb and apricot kebabs
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Add sweetness to your bbq with these tasty kebabs. Lamb and sweet apricots make the perfect combination and taste great grilled on a skewer.
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Prep time: 15 mins
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Cooking time: 20 mins
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
When you're grilling meat and vegetables on the same skewer, make sure the meat is smaller so the veg, which cook faster than the meat, don't burn before the meat is done. Make sure the pieces are big enough not to fall through the grill too!
- 2tbsprogan josh paste
- 2tbsp low-fat yogurt
- 500g (1lb) lamb leg steaks, cubed
- 1 leek, trimmed and thickly sliced
- 1 orange pepper, deseeded and cubed
- 16 ready-to-eat dried apricot
- 6 - 8 bamboo skewers, soaked in cold water for 30 mins
For the couscous salad
- 200g (7oz) couscous
- 2tbsp sultanas
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 1tbsp olive oil
- 3 spring onions, trimmed and roughly sliced
- 2tbsp coriander, roughly chopped
- Good handful watercress, roughly chopped
- Salt and ground black pepper, to taste
- Raita (spiced yogurt), to serve
Method
- In a bowl, mix together the yogurt and the rogan josh paste. Add the lamb and stir well and marinate for at least 20 mins. (For a more intense flavour, cover and refrigerate the marinated lamb for 2 hrs or even overnight).
- Meanwhile make the couscous salad. In a bowl, mix the couscous, sultanas, lemon zest and juice and oil together with a fork. Add 250ml boiling water from the kettle, stir well then cover with an upturned plate. Leave to soak for 10 mins - the water should all be absorbed. Add the onions, coriander, watercress and fluff up the grains with a fork. Season to taste.
- Lift the meat from the marinade and thread on to the soaked skewers alternating it with the leeks, peppers and apricots.
- Cook the kebabs over hot barbecue coals or under a hot grill for 20 mins, turning occasionally until the lamb is cooked to your liking. Serve with the couscous salad and some spiced yogurt (raita).
Nutritional information
Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.
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