Lamb with Prunes Recipe

• 1 kg tender Lamb Pieces
• 2 medium Onions (grated)
• 3 Garlic Cloves (finely chopped)
• Salt to taste
• 1tsp Pepper
• 1 tsp Ginger
• ½ tsp Saffron Threads (crumbled)
• ¼ tsp Moroccan Yellow Colorant
• 2 sticks Cinnamon
• ¼ cup Olive Oil
• ¼ cup Butter
• 1 Cilantro Bouquet
• ¼ kg Prunes
• 1 tbsp Honey
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• 1½ tsp Cinnamon (ground)
• 1 tbsp Golden Sesame Seeds (toasted)
• Handful of fried Almonds
• 2 ½ cups Water

• Take meat with onions, garlic, spices, butter, oil in a pot and cook it on medium flame until it is brown.
• Put in water with cilantro and simmer it on high flame. Then cook it covered on medium flame for 2½ hrs. Add more water if required and simmer until meat is very soft and just oil & onions are left.
• Take out ½ cup liquid from the pot while cooking and keep it to the side.
• Boil the prunes with water half covered in a pan. Drain it.
• Put the prunes with reserved liquid, honey, sugar, cinnamon and cook it until it forms into thick syrup.
• Place the cooked lamb on a plate and pour over prunes with syrup.
• Add on almonds, sesame seeds and serve it hot.