This spicy chili for two has a North African spin with lamb, cinnamon and harissa. If you can't find harissa, use mild chili powder in its place. You can turn up the heat with a little cayenne or hot sauce if you like it spicy. Serve with whole-wheat pita bread and tabbouleh.

Lamb & Chickpea Chili for Two

canola oil

onion,

red bell pepper, chopped

garlic,

lamb

turkey

¼ teaspoon salt, or more to taste

plum tomatoes, chopped

chickpeas,

harissa (see Note) or 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder

cinnamon

cilantro

Heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, bell pepper and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until beginning to soften, about 3 minutes. Add lamb, turkey and salt and cook, stirring and breaking up with a spoon, until no longer pink, about 4 minutes. Add tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, until they have released their liquid and are beginning to break down, about 4 minutes more. Add chickpeas, harissa (or chili powder) and cinnamon and cook, stirring, 1 minute more. Serve garnished with cilantro (or mint).


Good with a few adjustments
I made this tonight. I subbed a cubanelle pepper for the bell pepper (I don't like bell peppers), and beef for the lamb and turkey since my grocery store was out. 

I found this to be very bland until I doubled the cinnamon and harissa, and added quite a bit of salt. Very good then!  
Pros: easy to make, forgiving
Cons: bland as-is

Easy and Tasty
I added some more spices to this and used smoked paprika instead of chili powder. I served it with a Moroccan spiced carrot and avocado salad and some bulgur. I also used just ground Lamb since that is what I had. I would make it again.
Pros: easy to make and pretty tasty


Excellent dish--but needs a few alterations
This recipe makes for an excellent meal, however I did make a few alterations that I feel seriously improved the meal.  First of all I used 16 oz of ground lamb and no ground turkey because that's the way the lamb came packaged at the store.  Doing this yields about 2 cups instead of 1.5 per person, but I would have still been hungry without it.  The other thing that greatly helped this recipe was to add hot sauce to taste.  I'm not a hot sauce nut, but adding the hot sauce really brought out the underlying flavors without masking them.  I'm not sure how much hot sauce I used, just keep adding it until you like the taste.  Also, I used chili powder instead of harissa and it was great.  I would definitely suggest this savory meal for some ethnic variety in your cooking.
Pros: filling, flavorful, exotic, easy
Cons: bland with current recipe

lamb & chickpea chili for two

Total: 30 minutes

Author : EatingWell Test Kitchen

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