Winter Warmers: Persian spinach stew recipe

Winter Warmers: Persian spinach stew recipe

I’ve teamed up with Origin to create four delicious recipes this winter to help inspire you to dig out your slow cooker and whip up some tasty winter warmers. This week’s recipe, Persian spinach stew, is perfect for the winter season. It’s warm, full of flavour and so easy to make in a slow cooker. Not only does the slow cooker make for the perfect method to tenderise the meat, resulting in meat that falls off the bone and develops a rich flavour, it’s also great for beginner chefs and energy efficient too.

By Hoda Alzubaidi

Makes 6 serves

What you’ll need

To serve

This Persian spinach stew makes for an easy, and hearty, weeknight dinner.

Method

1. Wash and roughly chop the parsley, spinach, spring onion roughly. Place in a slow cooker.
2. Add the lamb neck, or any other cut of meat you like, and season with salt, pepper, turmeric and cumin.
3. Add kidney beans, olive oil and water before topping with dried limes* or the peels of 2 limes.
4. Turn the slow cooker on low for 5 hours.
5. Once cooked served with the jasmine rice and enjoy.

*The preserved limes release a unique bitter/sour flavour so the peel of fresh limes would work well as an alternative

Why use a slow cooker?

Slow cookers are the perfect life hack during winter. They’re beginner chef friendly, you can cook both mains and desserts in them, and they’re energy efficient. In fact, they use a little more energy than a traditional light bulb. So, you can have something slow cooking all day while you work – saving your energy and energy at home.

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