Mongolian Lamb Recipes

Steps:

• Partially freeze lamb so it's easier to cut and then slice paper thin.
• Soak lamb in cold water for 30 minutes.
• Rinse well under cold running water, drain and squeeze out excess moisture.
• Mix salt, soy sauce, egg, bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) and cornflour (cornstarch) in a medium bowl.
• Add lamb to the bowl and mix well. Add one tablespoon of peanut oil, mix again, and leave to marinate in refrigerator for two hours.
• Heat one tablespoon of peanut oil in a wok over medium-high heat and stir fry onion wedges and spring onion (scallion) for one minute. Remove and place aside.
• Heat remaining three tablespoons of peanut oil in the wok swirling to cover the surface.
• Stir fry garlic for 5 seconds.
• Add lamb and stir fry over high heat tossing constantly until brown.
• Add all sauce ingredients except the wine and toss a couple of times.
• Return onion and spring onion to the wok. Pour wine around the outside of the wok so it sizzles, mix and serve at once over rice.

Steps:

• Heat a wok and add half the oil, swirling it round to coat the pan.
• Stir-fry the lamb in 2 batches for 3 minutes each time.
• Remove all the lamb from the wok.
• Reheat the wok and add the other half of oil.
• Add the garlic and spring onion, and stir-fry for 2 minutes, then remove from the wok.
• Add the sauces and sherry to the wok, and bring to the boil.
• Reduce the heat and simmer for 3-4 minutes or until the sauce thickens a little.
• Return the meat and any juices to the wok, and the spring onion, and toss to coat with the sauce.
• Sprinkle with the sesame seeds and serve.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put the lamb in a casserole dish with a lid. Add remaining ingredients plus enough water to just cover. Cook with the lid on for 3 hrs until the meat is tender and the bones pull out easily. Allow to cool still covered in the cooking liquid with the lid on. You can do this 1-2 days in advance and let the lamb cool completely in the fridge. This will make the next step easier.
• When cold, lift the lamb out of the liquid and transfer to a baking tray. Skim fat from the sauce. Reserve half the sauce for the noodles (in 'Try' section, below) and bubble the rest, still in the pan, until thick and syrupy. Pour into a small serving bowl. Heat grill to medium and grill lamb until crisp and hot through, but not too dark.
• Shred the lamb, discarding most of the fat and all the bones, but keep the nice, crisp skin. You can cut the skin off first and leave it in a hot oven while you shred the rest of the meat. To serve, take everything to the table and eat the lamb rolled up in the lettuce leaves with the cucumber, spring onions and sauce, plus the noodles on the side.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to180c or gas mark 4
• To butterfly the leg of lam place the boned leg skin side down on a chopping board. Locate with your fingers the cavity where the bone was and carefully place the sharp knife into the leg cavity blade side upwards and carefully cut upwards so the leg opens up into two joined halves. Tern the leg over skin side up, cover with cling film and beat with a rolling pin so the leg becomes flat and even.
• Peal and grate the ginger and garlic Mix together the five spice, grated ginger, garlic with a little soy sauce so the consistency resembles tomato pure.
• Score the skin with a sharp knife making sure not to cut to deeply. (Tip a Stanley knife with a new blade dose the job to perfection) Place the lamb into a roasting tin with deep sides
• Rub the five spice paste into the scores in the skin of the lamb Pour over the black bean sauce coating the lamb. Sprinkle evenly the Muscovado sugar over the lamb.. Cover with tinfoil and place in the oven on the middle shelf for 1 & quarter hours
• remove the tinfoil and cook on the top shelf for a further 15-min.