Stewed Lamb Recipes

Steps:

• Salt the lamb steaks and dust them with the flour. Fry in the oil in two batches, for about 10 mins each, in a large pan with a lid, until they are a little golden on both sides. Set aside. Tip the leftover oil into a small bowl and save for the potatoes.
• Next, crush the garlic and parsley using a pestle and mortar, then stir in the wine. Add it all to the pan and wait about 1 min until bubbles appear on the surface. Pour in 150ml water and wait until bubbles appear again. Now return the steaks, cover and let it all simmer over a low heat for 45-50 mins or until tender.
• With 30 mins to go, fry the potatoes in a separate pan in the leftover oil for 5 mins or until golden. Sit them on kitchen paper to absorb any excess oil, then add them to the lamb for the remaining cooking time. Once the lamb and potatoes are tender, add the peas and simmer for 5 mins before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Into the largest saucepan or casserole you have that will go into the oven, pour 3 tablespoons of the oil. Brown the meat in batches over high heat and remove with a slotted spoon to a plate nearby. You may need more oil as you do this. The onions will certainly need it, so pour the remaining oil or add more, add the onions, sprinkling a little salt over them and cook then until soft and translucent. Add the garlic, celery, thyme, and oregano. After a couple of minutes or so, when the smell of garlic wafts up, remove half the mixture. Add the meat to the mixture in the pan, cover with the remaining half, add the bay leaves, carrots, tomatoes, stock and wine. I use a big but flattish casserole and this amount of liquid covers the meat, but if you find you need more liquid, add water- you want a lot of liquid, because you will, eventually, be cooking some pasta in it. Bring to a boil, remove scum, and let bubble for about 3 minutes. Then cover, transfer to the oven, and bake for about 2 to 2 1/2 hours, or cook on a very low heat. The meat should be tender and yielding. Remove the carrots (and eat, cook's treat) and bay leaves, too, if you want, and season, to taste, with the salt and pepper.
• Of course you can proceed to the final stage now, but I am presuming you're not going to. In which case, let the stew cool and keep it in the refrigerator until you want it. Skim the fat off the top, and do remember to take it out of the refrigerator a good 1 to 2 hours before you cook it again. You can reheat this in the oven, but because the pasta will be put in on the stove, I tend to heat it there. Make sure the stew is piping hot. Meanwhile, bring a large pot of water to a boil. When it boils, add the salt and then pasta. Cook this until it's nearly but not quite cooked; it should have a couple of minutes still to go.
• Then drain the pasta and add it quickly to the bubbling juices in the casserole, making sure first that there are enough bubbling juices. You don't want the meat to be drowned, but you want enough for the pasta to be covered. The pasta will absorb some of the liquid as it finishes cooking, of course.
• In a couple of minutes, the pasta should be cooked. Crumble some feta and put in a bowl with the chopped parsley, oregano, or basil. Stir to combine and then leave the spoon with it, so that people can sprinkle the herb-spiked cheese over the stew as they wish. Ladle the stew into shallow soup bowls.

Steps:

• Add oil to a large heavy saucepan and fry the onions and garlic until browned but not burned; remove from pan and set aside.
• Add lamb to the same pan, frying until well browned.
• Add onion and garlic mixture back to the same pan.
• Add ras el hanout and salt and pepper; mix well to coat everything.
• Add the stock, bring to the boil, then reduce heat to an even simmer.
• Cook 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.
• Add honey, and continue to cook an additional 30 minutes, until the lamb is tender and the sauce has thickened.
• Serve with rice, and scatter the almond slivers over the lamb.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 160°C Heat half the oil in a heavy based casserole dish. Brown the chops in batches over medium heat then remove to a plate.
• Turn heat down, add remaining olive oil and fry onion gently until soft.
• Add garlic, celery, carrot and parsnip and cook for 3 minutes, stirring regularly.
• Add chopped tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce and brown sugar and stir to combine. Return chops to the casserole, then pour over water to cover, stirring again to combine.
• Add the sprigs of rosemary, cover the casserole and cook for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. Remove any fat from the surface with a large spoon and add the peas.
• Cook on the stove top with the lid off to reduce the sauce slightly until the peas are cooked through.