Posts Tagged ‘Lamb’
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Like the previous recipe, this one also pairs up lamb with some heat and punchy flavours. The harissa loses some of it’s heat in the cooking, and creates a lovely tangy, spicy, sticky crust on the lamb. I got my hands on a fine leg of Yorkshire lamb from my new favourite meat source, Marky Market. It’s a great idea. Mark gets up every day to go to Smithfields and Billingsgate, you place your order the day before, and then he delivers to your door. Brilliant.
In terms of prep time, the potatoes are a bit of a faff, but the lamb is simplicity itself, so it’s swings and roundabouts. We served it with a gorgeous heritage tomato, red onion and mint salad, and a tzatziki (you can find the recipe for the latter here).
Ingredients
(for the lamb)
2.5 kg leg of lamb
90g Harissa paste
90g 0% fat Greek yoghurt
Juice and zest of one lemon
(for the potatoes)
1.7 kg of potatoes (Desiree / King Edward)
1 white onion
1 red onion
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Tags: Boulangere, Harissa, Juice, Lamb, Leg, Lemon, Onions, Potatoes, stock, thyme, Tzatziki, Yoghurt
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
I’ve got to say that I absolutely loved Marrakesh, and probably my favourite experience of our whole honeymoon was eating in Jemaa El Fna at night. During the day, Marrakesh’s main square is home to performing monkeys, snake charmers, magicians, medicine men, dentists and all kinds of other fantastic oddities. But come dusk, it transforms into what can only really be described as the World’s biggest restaurant.
The dozens of food stalls that fill the square at night start setting up at around 5 o’clock. From a distance you can see the smoke rising from the braziers, and before long you are hit by a combination of all sorts of delicious smells. There are a myriad of ways to fill your belly, with most stalls specialising in one or just a few dishes from grilled meats to eggs, snails to harira, and a few things that might offend the squeamish.
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Tags: Aicha, Chicken, Chilli, Food, Grilled Meats, Harira, Hassan, Jemaa El Fna, Lamb, Marrakesh, Merguez, Morocco, Pastilla, Pigeon, Stalls, Tagine
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
It’s been hot, hot, hot in London town this week, and the warm weather has got me thinking about summer food. Aside maybe from a decent burger on a barbie, for me it’s the Mediterraneans that totally nail ‘al fresco’ eating. Grilled meats, crunchy veg and fresh zingy flavours.
These lamb wraps have all that and more. The taste of the spicy, charred, marinated meat and the tzatziki work really well together, and the wraps mean that the dish is still pretty light. We don’t have a garden, so our griddle pan has to do.
Ingredients (makes 3 large wraps)
For the lamb
400g lamb leg steaks
Handful of fresh oregano leaves, chopped
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon dried chilli flakes
Juice of one lemon
50ml extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
Pinch of salt
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
For the tzatziki
200g 0% fat Greek yoghurt
1/4 cucumber, sliced and diced
Handful of mint leaves, chopped
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Tags: Chilli, Cucumber, Garlic, Lamb, Lemon, Mint, Olive Oil, Onion, Oregano, Paprika, Salad, Tzatziki, Wraps, Yoghurt
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been looking at new features to add to Hand To Mouth. My friend Dazzler suggested I try re-creating recipes from weird and wonderful books, which I thought was a great idea. This first ‘Tried & Tested’ post fits more into the latter category, as it comes from a rather lovely new cookery book called ‘Great British Food‘.
Put together by the guys behind the brilliant Canteen mini chain of restaurants, this Lancashire Hot Pot stays true to their ethos of cooking gutsy, tasty, good quality, British grub. The recipe calls for leg mutton, which I couldn’t get hold of at the time of cooking, so instead I used shoulder of lamb.
The recipe takes a bit of prep, but once you get going it’s pretty easy, and it tastes reet good.
Ingredients (serves 6)
50g butter
250g onions, sliced
1kg boned leg of mutton, 3-4cm dice
150g carrots, sliced
10g fresh thyme, leaves picked
3 bay leaves
700g floury potatoes (Maris Piper), peeled ad thinly sliced
500ml meat stock
100ml meat stock
Salt and black pepper
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Tags: Bay, Book, Canteen, Carrot, Lamb, Lancashire Hot Pot, Potatoes, Recipe, stock, thyme
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
As I may or may not have mentioned before, my other half’s family are a real mixed bag in terms of nationalities. Chinese, Indian, and South African to name but three. A veritable melting pot compared to my comparatively mundane ancestry.
As a result, my future mother in law, Connie, seems to be able to cook anything. From insane curries and whole fried Chinese fish, to cream horns and South African doughnuts. And the speed she does it at is mind blowing. Turn your back for 10 seconds and when you look back there’s a plate of food in front of you. Brilliant.
This recipe is for her quick lamb curry that I tried whilst over in Oz and she kindly wrote the recipe down for me. It’s very tasty, and also very easy. If you can get your lamb on the bone, so much the better as it’ll give your curry more flavour.
Ingredients
750g stewing lamb, diced
1 large onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, pounded
1 thumb sized piece of ginger, pounded
1/4 teaspoon tumeric
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon garam masala
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 cinnamon stick
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Tags: Chilli, Coriander, Cumin, Curry, Garam Massala, Garlic, Ginger, Green Lentils, Lamb, Onion, Rice, Tomato
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
As mentioned in the previous post, I was down in Cornwall for Christmas. My mum always puts on a great spread while we’re down there, but with seven mouths to feed she has her work cut out, and seems to spend too much time in the kitchen. That being the case, for the last few years I’ve given her the night off and cooked a meal for the family.
This year I cooked a slow cooked shoulder of lamb with Cornish style boulangère potatoes and spring greens. The lamb is cooked in a tangy herb, lemon and anchovy marinade (I have to leave out the garlic as my dad can’t stand it, but have included it in this recipe), and the classicly French boulangère are given a South West twist with the adition of Cornish cruncher cheddar cheese.
Ingredients
For the lamb:
2.5 kilo shoulder of lamb
2 lemons (juice and zest)
10 -15 tinned anchovy fillets
Bunch of rosemary
5 large cloves of garlic
Olive oil
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Tags: Anchovy, Boulangere, Cheese, Cornish Cruncher, Lamb, Lemon, Potatoes, Rosemary, Shoulder, Slow Cook, Spring Greens
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
I was first taken to Mangal 1 6 or so years ago by my friends Lou and Liam who lived down the road in Hackney at the time, and I’ve been going back ever since. Back then it had a real impact on me because I’d never really been anywhere like it in the UK before. It’s completely unpretentious, a bit ramshackle, and when you step through the door you feel like you’re in a different country.
You immediately get hit by the heat and smell of grilling meat from the massive open barbecue style grill that is slap bang in the middle of the restaurant. And that’s what the Turkish ocakbasi restaurants are all about. Meat and fire. The menu is dominated by kebabs, mostly lamb and chicken, although you can also get quail and offal too. I suggest you go with a few friends, because you’re going to want to try everything, but I can heartily recommend the following. (more…)
Tags: Cacik, Chicken, Grill, Kebab, Lamb, Mangal, Ocakbasi, Sac breads, Salad, Sumac, Turkish
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