Ras el Hanout Lamb Rib Chops

I’m often asked whether I use anything other than salt and pepper on meat. “Meat must taste like meat,” some insist. I get that, but I don’t agree with ignoring spices. For centuries, various cultures (particularly in the Middle East) have used spices and herbs to flavour food. While quality meat does taste delicious “undressed”, a dry rub can tease out flavours that salt and pepper simply cannot.

Ras el Hanout, with its mix of cumin, cardamom, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, mace and alls