Middle Eastern Roasted Eggplant with Couscous

Middle Eastern Roasted Eggplant with Couscous - 15 minutes prep for this fragrant melt-in-your-mouth eggplant piled high with a fresh couscous. Divine starter or as a meal. (Vegan Tahini Drizzle recipe included as an alternative to dolloping yoghurt on!)

Moroccan Lamb Meatballs

Plump, juicy, beautifully spiced Moroccan Lamb Meatballs with Minted Yoghurt. Pan fried or baked. Stuff in pita pockets, pass around at a party or pile over pilaf!

Stuffed Eggplant with Lamb and Pine Nuts from 'Jerusalem'

As any fan of Yotam Ottolenghi's previous book, Plenty, knows, the man is an expert when it comes to eggplant. In his and his partner Sami Tamimi's new book Jerusalem: A Cookbook, there are copious recipes for eggplant—stuffed, puréed, roasted, baked, and everything in between. In their Stuffed Eggplant with Lamb and Pine Nuts, they fill the silky, humble nightshade with a warmly spiced blend of gamey ground lamb, sweet onions, and a smattering of pine nuts.

Moroccan lamb backstrap

Lamb backstrap is a cut that's prized for its tenderness and delicate lamb flavour. You'll fall in love with the flavourful Moroccan spice rub we're using today. It's the perfect match with backstrap! Moroccan lamb

Moroccan Lamb Meatball Tagine

Tender lamb meatballs are stewed with shallots, cilantro, mint, carrots, golden raisins, and ras-el-hanout, full of spicy, hot, smoky, sweet Moroccan flavor. Comforting, but unfamiliar and delicious.

Beef & Lentil Soup

Great beef mince recipe for something different - Beef & Lentil Soup! Lots of vegetables, hearty, healthy, Moroccan spiced for extra flavour.

Moussaka (Greek Beef and Eggplant Lasagna)

A very traditional Greek Moussaka recipe made with thick layers of eggplant, beef in tomato sauce, topped with béchamel sauce. Comfort food central!

Grilled Eggplant with Yoghurt Sauce

A simple but incredibly tasty recipe for Grilled Eggplant dish that's on the table in 15 minutes. Just grilled slices of eggplant and top with a simple tasty yoghurt sauce.

Lamb Tagine

Lamb Tagine is a stunner. Deep flavours, intense spicy, fall apart lamb, easy to make. Serve over couscous for a beautiful Middle Eastern meal.

Baked Eggplant with Lamb and Walnut Sauce

A Turkish-inspired dish with a ragu as complex as bolognese that can be made in a fraction of the time. The principal spice blend in the sauce is called janissary spice, the product of Turkish spice blender in Istanbul, but it's easy to replicate at home. Seek out maraş chiles, which are intensely sweet, not that hot, and carry the rich flavors of sun-warmed tomatoes with hints of red bell pepper for the blend. You can find them at Cambridge's Formaggio Kitchen and Oakland's Market Hall foods (b...