Slow cooked lamb with prunes

This is a lazy tagine style Sunday dinner.

500g stewing lamb (mine was on the bone)
1 onion sliced
A handful of prunes
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 star anise
1 tsp cumin
Red wine (enough to come about halfway up once the ingredients are in the slow cooker)

Normally I would brown the meat and onions before putting them into the slow cooker but quite frankly I couldn't be bothered so I just put all the ingredients into the slow cooker and cook on low for 8hrs.  Serve with couscous or rice.

This smelt amazing as it was cooking and tasted just as good as when the meat had been browned.  It was dark and unctuous and sweet from the prunes.  You could add a chilli or some cayenne pepper if you wanted a bit of poke to it.