Topic: Half Shoulder of Lamb

[katynewbie]

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In the Lake District the other week I bought a half shoulder of Herdwick Lamb. It's in the freezer waiting for Easter Sunday. Anyone got any interesting recipes to do it justice?

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[Jitterbug]

Stuff with garlic and rosemary and slow roast.  Serve with mint sauce.  Delicious...

Jitterbug

[tim]

Lucky to find mint??

[Hyacinth]

You've got mint; Jitterbug's got mint..you got a SatNav in your car Katy? You ready for a midnight raid? :D

[grawrc]

personally I'd skip the mint. Lamb with rosemary and garlic plus gratin savoyard or lyonnais (first one potatoes garlic stock and cream second one +onions) then some green beans done with tomatoes and garlic. Mmmmmmmm...........

[valmarg]

Half shoulder of lamb
1 lb potatoes
12 oz carrots
8 oz small onions
10 fl oz beef stock
1 garlic clove, crushed

Heat the oven to 200F.  Trim and wipe the shoulder of lamb.  Halve quarter of slice the vegetables if large, otherwise leave them whole.

Place the meat in the middle of an ovenproof dish.  Arrange the vegetables around the meat.  Pour over the stock, and season with garlic, salt and pepper.

Cover with foil and place in the oven.  Cook for 45 minutes, then remove the foil and cook until nicely browned.

Remove the meat to rest.  Keep the veg warm, and thicken the stock.

We serve this with a green veg like calabrese, or cabbage.  We use home made mint jelly (at this time of year) rather than mint sauce.

valmarg

[asbean]

Slow cook in red wine  :P :P :P :P :P :P

[Hyacinth]

Katy, to do superb English lamb justice, forget these Foreign Fancy Ways!

Traditional roast, Katy, stay true to the Great British Menu maxim - I'll allow you to faff around with rosemary & garlic with the veggies.

Go on, you know it makes sense  8)

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[valmarg]

Katy, to do superb English lamb justice, forget these Foreign Fancy Ways!

Was it the clove of garlic in my recipe that was foreign and fancy? :o

Considering the recipe comes from and Olde English cookbook, and is a plain braised/roast method, and very tasty. ;D ;D

valmarg

[Gazfoz]

They all sound spot on to me , wish I had half a dozen legs to try them all out.

[star]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  if it did you'd never have caught it!!

[caseylee]

I am doing a roast lef of lamb today, all I do is coat the lamb in mint sauce shove it in the oven with tons of garlic gloves peeled, onions halfed and roast potatoes, and let it cook.  Lamb is a gorgeous meat and the simpler the better, enjoy the taste of the meat and not the other ingriedants.

[honeybee]

Got mine cooking now with garlic and fresh rosemary picked from the garden, but I feel lazy as you cant beat a cranberry sauce with red wine jus  :P