Peel garlic and ginger and chop finely. Clean the chilli, cut lengthwise, remove seeds, wash and chop finely. Put peppercorns and sugar in a mortar and crush finely. Add 2 tsp. cumin and cinnamon, 1 tsp. paprika, garlic, ginger and chilli and mix everything into a paste.
Wash, halve and stone the apricots. Wash the meat, dab dry and cut into 2 cm wide strips. Peel and halve onions and cut into fine strips.
Heat the oil in a frying pan or casserole. Brown the meat in it in portions all around, season with salt. Finally fry onions and half of the apricots briefly. Add the meat again. Add the spice paste and sweat until it smells good.
Deglaze with 800 ml water, bring to the boil. Cover and stew for 45-60 minutes. Add the remaining apricots about 5 minutes before the end of the cooking time. Season to taste again.