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Down in a little corner of Godzone there is a place where a region of plains sit between the ocean and a mountain range or three.

'Bout mid way down these plains, near a 'blink and you will miss it town', there's a little lifestyle block that was once part of a larger piece of land. This block was to be in a township that never grew, only three houses were ever built. The place on the corner was called Kaponga, refering to its situation, and to this day this name has stuck: unlike the acreage.

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16 February 2011

Febuary's spice rack challenge: citrus

After last months, this was almost made for me.  Where to even start?  Well, with my favourite recipe for using preserved lemons.

Lamb and tomato pizza

1 frozen pizza base
or  6 hamburger buns, halved

1 lb minced lamb, I've used beef before, and its good... but lamb is better
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground caraway
1 tsp of chilli powder, or to taste

2 onions, finely sliced
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 can chopped tomatoes
1 tsp cinnamon, ground
1 tsp allspice, ground
1 tsp brown sugar

To serve
2 preserved lemons
bunch of fresh coriander, chopped
Greek yogurt

Mix together all the lamb ingredients, cook in hot frypan with a little oil, until browned.
Sauté the sliced onions in the oil in a separate frypan. Once they’re soft and golden add the tomatoes and cook for a further 10 minutes. Stir in the spices and sugar and cook for a couple of minutes.
You are aiming for a thick sauce, otherwise you will have soggy pizza/hamburger halves
Spread the tomato on your base, add the lamb mince.
Heat in oven to cook/toast base.
As you can see, I often serve with chips, for totally healthy, green vege free meal ( small amount of sarcasm there )

Slice the skin off the lemons; this is the part that you want.  Dice and scatter over pizzas.
Ditto with the coriander and yogurt.

Enjoy

3 comments:

  1. I love that you were able to make something with last Month's Challenge for the one this month. I am always looking for good preserved lemon recipes.

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  2. Wow, this is intriguing! Lamb is not a common pizza topping around here, but why not? The lemon peel addition is intriguing.

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  3. this is new and sure is an out of the box recipe. as stated above this is intriguing

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