Hearty Vegetable Tagine - Vegan Recipe

Ingredients

• 7 baby potatoes, peeled and slightly smashed apart with pestle (keep skins)
• 6 pearl onions (or 4 eschalots), peeled and halved
• 5 green olives, seeds in
• 4 black olives, seeds in
• 3 cloves of garlic, smashed
• 1 carrot, cut into large chunks
• 1 zucchini, roughly chopped
• 6 cherry tomatoes, halved
• 4 dried figs, halved
• Pinch saffron
• 1 cup vegetable stock
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• Generous pinch salt
• Pepper, to taste
• [To serve:]
• 2 cups cooked couscous (or quinoa if gluten-free)
• 1/4 cup roasted slivered almonds (optional)
• Parsley, finely chopped