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Incorrigible

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13,668 posts

289 months

Wednesday 21st July 2010
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I've got a nice mixed bag of various lamb joints from a local farmer (it's nice being able to weld sometimes) and I've got a breast of lamb

Never had one before, anyone got reccomendations for cooking it, slow or fast

Anything ? lick

Plotloss

67,280 posts

298 months

Wednesday 21st July 2010
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Bone and trim it, where the bones were put stuffing the pockets and a layer of stuffing all over the face of it.

Roll it up from the thin end and tie.

Oven it at 160ish for 2 or so hours until its cooked how you like it.

Rest, slice, serve.

Or, knowing you, cut in half and eat worrying about string later.

Breast of lamb. Done.

thetapeworm

13,733 posts

267 months

Wednesday 21st July 2010
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My local treatery serves it with a smoked sprat, seems like a strange combo but with the fish and lamb in your mouth at the same time it just melts and tastes fantastic without any of the grease you sometimes get with breast on it's own.




Plotloss

67,280 posts

298 months

Wednesday 21st July 2010
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I can see that.

Anchovies in a leg of lamb work well, even for someone who regards salt as the dessicated semen of satan.

Marf

22,907 posts

269 months

Wednesday 21st July 2010
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Plotloss said:
Bone and trim it, where the bones were put stuffing the pockets and a layer of stuffing all over the face of it.

Roll it up from the thin end and tie.

Oven it at 160ish for 2 or so hours until its cooked how you like it.

Rest, slice, serve.

Or, knowing you, cut in half and eat worrying about string later.

Breast of lamb. Done.
^^ What he said. Keep it simple and it'll be delicious. Just make sure the fat is nice and crispy lick



Edited by Marf on Wednesday 21st July 22:03

Incorrigible

Original Poster:

13,668 posts

289 months

Wednesday 21st July 2010
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Ah, that explains why this one was rubbery as fcensoredk

Quite tasty but Mrs Inc cooked it for about 40 minutes (trying to be nice for me when I got in, bless)

Next time......

Tanguero

4,535 posts

229 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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Don said:
OK. This one is disgraceful - Tatws Popdu or "Potatoes in the Oven".

It's a Welsh folk dish and there are loads of variations and recipes - but this is the one I do.

Peel enough potatoes to fill the bottom of a small lasagne dish. Maris Piper are good - chop 'em up into three pieces each as you would for roasties. Fill that lasagne dish.

Take some stock made from your Sunday roast bones or whatever and add a small quantity of sage and onion stuff mix to it. Pour over the potatoes - the liquid level should come hald way up the potatoes.

Now take a breast of lamb. This is the cheapest, greasiest cut of lamb available. You want it with the bones in. Take a cleaver or large knife and cut it up between the bones so you have strips of it.

Lay the strips over the top of the potatoes. I like to sprinkle some finely chopped rosemary on top.

Roast in a medium hot oven. For a long, long, long time. You need to do this until the lamb on the top has roasted right out and become crispy and delicious. All the fat should have melted out.

OK. You can guess where all the fat went, right? Yep. Into the potatoes below. During the roasting time the stock will have boiled dry and the potatoes will have part boiled, part steamed and finally roasted in the lamb oil. The lamb will have been kept moist on the bottom by the stock steam at first...

Personally at this stage I pour off the excess fat but traditionally you didn't as it all added flavour...but as a peasant dish, of course, the layer of potatoes would have been three or four thick spreading the fat out.

Serve with mashed swede/carrot together. A serving is a few crispy lamb strips, four roast potato pieces (with the odd crispy stuffing) and a spoon of the mashed veg.


£2.50 makes enough for two hungry people.


The above recipe takes practice to achieve an edible result. Once "right", however, it's actually delicious.
This ^^^ yum

Don

28,378 posts

312 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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Tanguero said:
Don said:
OK. This one is disgraceful - Tatws Popdu or "Potatoes in the Oven".

It's a Welsh folk dish and there are loads of variations and recipes - but this is the one I do.

Peel enough potatoes to fill the bottom of a small lasagne dish. Maris Piper are good - chop 'em up into three pieces each as you would for roasties. Fill that lasagne dish.

Take some stock made from your Sunday roast bones or whatever and add a small quantity of sage and onion stuff mix to it. Pour over the potatoes - the liquid level should come hald way up the potatoes.

Now take a breast of lamb. This is the cheapest, greasiest cut of lamb available. You want it with the bones in. Take a cleaver or large knife and cut it up between the bones so you have strips of it.

Lay the strips over the top of the potatoes. I like to sprinkle some finely chopped rosemary on top.

Roast in a medium hot oven. For a long, long, long time. You need to do this until the lamb on the top has roasted right out and become crispy and delicious. All the fat should have melted out.

OK. You can guess where all the fat went, right? Yep. Into the potatoes below. During the roasting time the stock will have boiled dry and the potatoes will have part boiled, part steamed and finally roasted in the lamb oil. The lamb will have been kept moist on the bottom by the stock steam at first...

Personally at this stage I pour off the excess fat but traditionally you didn't as it all added flavour...but as a peasant dish, of course, the layer of potatoes would have been three or four thick spreading the fat out.

Serve with mashed swede/carrot together. A serving is a few crispy lamb strips, four roast potato pieces (with the odd crispy stuffing) and a spoon of the mashed veg.


£2.50 makes enough for two hungry people.


The above recipe takes practice to achieve an edible result. Once "right", however, it's actually delicious.
This ^^^ yum
I was going to post that - but I have people to do it for me nowadays! hehe

And thanks for your feedback - I hope you enjoyed it. My father-in-law now asks for it when he and mum-in-law visit, bless him. Cheap as anything, filling and tasty.

Marf

22,907 posts

269 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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Don that sounds fecking awesome yum

Tanguero

4,535 posts

229 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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Don said:
I was going to post that - but I have people to do it for me nowadays! hehe

And thanks for your feedback - I hope you enjoyed it. My father-in-law now asks for it when he and mum-in-law visit, bless him. Cheap as anything, filling and tasty.
It is a firm, though in deference to the waistline, occasional, favorite.
Many thanks for posting it in the first place! bow

jokane

8 posts

193 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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that sound tasty, used to cook breast of lamb in my arga when i had one just on its own, but this dish sounds like a winner.

thetapeworm

13,733 posts

267 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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I was in my local Morrisons tonight and couldn't help noticing that they had breast of lamb on sale, some stores have sold it cooked for a while but I've never seen it raw. They had pigs cheeks too, 64p for a pair.

Incorrigible

Original Poster:

13,668 posts

289 months

Friday 23rd July 2010
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Note to self: Post before cooking

Your help, gentlemen, has been marvellous and concise in equal measure

And in true PH style I must away to the drag racing forum as I need to procure some methanol

Henry Hawthorne

6,520 posts

244 months

Thursday 17th March 2011
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Tanguero said:
Don said:
OK. This one is disgraceful - Tatws Popdu or "Potatoes in the Oven".

It's a Welsh folk dish and there are loads of variations and recipes - but this is the one I do.

Peel enough potatoes to fill the bottom of a small lasagne dish. Maris Piper are good - chop 'em up into three pieces each as you would for roasties. Fill that lasagne dish.

Take some stock made from your Sunday roast bones or whatever and add a small quantity of sage and onion stuff mix to it. Pour over the potatoes - the liquid level should come hald way up the potatoes.

Now take a breast of lamb. This is the cheapest, greasiest cut of lamb available. You want it with the bones in. Take a cleaver or large knife and cut it up between the bones so you have strips of it.

Lay the strips over the top of the potatoes. I like to sprinkle some finely chopped rosemary on top.

Roast in a medium hot oven. For a long, long, long time. You need to do this until the lamb on the top has roasted right out and become crispy and delicious. All the fat should have melted out.

OK. You can guess where all the fat went, right? Yep. Into the potatoes below. During the roasting time the stock will have boiled dry and the potatoes will have part boiled, part steamed and finally roasted in the lamb oil. The lamb will have been kept moist on the bottom by the stock steam at first...

Personally at this stage I pour off the excess fat but traditionally you didn't as it all added flavour...but as a peasant dish, of course, the layer of potatoes would have been three or four thick spreading the fat out.

Serve with mashed swede/carrot together. A serving is a few crispy lamb strips, four roast potato pieces (with the odd crispy stuffing) and a spoon of the mashed veg.


£2.50 makes enough for two hungry people.


The above recipe takes practice to achieve an edible result. Once "right", however, it's actually delicious.
This ^^^ yum
Just about to try this - how long is a "long, long, long" time?

johnnywgk

2,579 posts

210 months

Thursday 17th March 2011
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(it's nice being able to weld sometimes)

Are you going to try and weld it back together Frankenstein

Pferdestarke

7,192 posts

215 months

Thursday 17th March 2011
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I'd be cooking it for at least three hours in a boned and rolled formation at about 170c. I had some on Monday evening and it was ridiculously tasty!

21TonyK

13,227 posts

237 months

Thursday 17th March 2011
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I was thinking of doing something with a breast of lamb for Sunday lunch if its decent weather.

Was going to bone it out, marinate in herbs and garlic then slow roast on very low for a few hours. Let it cool cut into strips then crumb it and deep fry. Then serve it with a pea shoot salad and some minted new pots.


ChrisnChris

1,424 posts

250 months

Thursday 17th March 2011
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Tanguero said:
Don said:
OK. This one is disgraceful - Tatws Popdu or "Potatoes in the Oven".


The above recipe takes practice to achieve an edible result. Once "right", however, it's actually delicious.
This ^^^ yum
Going to echo this. Mum would give us this in the 60's when we were kids.

Every so often she reminds me & apologises biggrin I still love it.
Christine isn't too keen so I cook it for myself when she's away...only addition to the recipe for me is spring greens.lick
Oh... & it should carry a health warninghehe

Don

28,378 posts

312 months

Thursday 17th March 2011
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Nice to see the old recipe making reappearances! biggrin

I cook it in the oven for longer than two hours. You know it's ready because the lamb is crisped up and brown and has shrunk so that the top of the potatoes have had a chance to brown too.

It IS utterly disgraceful. Love it. I only eat it in winter - so I'm going to get a last one in shortly! tongue out

ChrisnChris

1,424 posts

250 months

Thursday 17th March 2011
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Don said:
It IS utterly disgraceful. Love it. I only eat it in winter - so I'm going to get a last one in shortly! tongue out
SWMBO is away week after next scratchchin just time methinksbiggrin