Lamb and Vegetable Couscous from Polop

From historic references we know that al-cuzcuz was quite common in Andalusia during the Muslim rule. After the Moors were expelled in the fifteenth century and the country was thoroughly Catholicized, couscous seems to have disappeared from Spanish cuisine. In a book dedicated to the cuisine of Alicante, my friend Angeles Ruiz includes the following couscous recipe from the town of Polop. In the early twentieth century, Angeles