What to make with lamb tagine for a celebratory meal

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I am doing a big lunch for lots of people soon and want it to have a celebratory feel. I like having lots of Ottolenghi-ish dishes on the table.

The main thing with be lamb and aubergine tagine with lemon and pomegranate couscous. What other side dishes would you do? Everyone eats everything.

Any thoughts on pudding- I'd like to do two.

Happy to do any amount of prep- I love cooking- but would prefer not too much to do at the las minute.

Thank you!

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I've made this as a pudding to go after a tagine on a couple of occasions and it's gone down very well:

Om Ali | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson https://www.nigella.com/recipes/om-ali

Eta Have you any Ottolenghi cook books? Might be a bit late for this meal but I recommend Simple if you like his style of cooking. I'm doing a cauliflower cheese out of it tomorrow to go with gammon but I think it would be a bit rich to go with a tagine.
Some if his side dishes like stuffed courgettes are good and probably on the internet.

Desserts…. One traditional, like a fruit crumble, and the other… a roulade? Cheesecake?

I love zaalouk and flatbreads on the side.

for desert I would do a brown sugar pavlova with mango, and a lime curd drizzled on top

I’d serve roasted Mediterranean veg with sumac, falafels (or flat chickpea patties if you don’t like deep frying) hummus, flat breads, roasted aubergine dip called zaalouk, and white bean stew

I’d do some lovely Moroccan type salads - tabbouleh, fennel and orange, lots of herbs.
eg something like this https://drizzleanddip.com/2020/08/26/moroccan-carrot-fennel-salad-with-sultanas-pistachios/
or https://www.jewishfoodsociety.org/recipes/shaved-fennel-and-orange-salad

For pudding, after tagine we always like this - it’s not even cooking, incredibly simple but we had this a few times as a refreshing thing after a meal in Morocco and it’s lovely - just sliced oranges with sugar and cinnamon sprinkled over. On a big platter and lots of little forks for people to help themselves to a few slices.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/moroccan-slied-oranges-dessert-2394462

Thanks very much, everyone- lovely ideas.

This salad is gorgeous and would work well with the tagine served warm. I use halloumi instead of manouri although you might want to leave it the cheese out?

Sorry pressed enter too soon. For dessert what about Nigell’a clementine cake served with caramel oranges (or something else fruity) and Barbados cream

I love Barbados cream! My aunt always used to make it when there were family parties, 40 years ago and longer. It’s the greatest.