Slow Cooked Lamb Shoulder with Mash and Gravy

4h 20m
Serves 1
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Directions

  1. 1Cut up some onions and line the bottom of a baking tray with them.
  2. 2Cover the lamb in salt and pepper.
  3. 3Grab some rosemary and break it up, putting it in the baking tray.
  4. 4Bust up a shit load of garlic cloves and drop them in the tray as well.
  5. 5Cover it with a bit of olive oil.
  6. 6Tip in a cup or so of chicken stock.
  7. 7Wrap it tightly with foil.
  8. 8Preheat your oven to 160 degrees and put the lamb in to cook for 4-5 hours (depending on the size of your lamb shoulder).
  9. 9Peel and cut up your potatoes and chuck them in a pot.
  10. 10Add a little salt to the water.
  11. 11Once the potatoes are done, turn the heat off and drain them.
  12. 12Cover the carrots in olive oil, salt, and pepper.
  13. 13Put the carrots in a baking tray and fill it up with cold water.
  14. 14Make the mash: add butter, cream, salt, and pepper to the drained potatoes.
  15. 15Take the lamb out of the oven and let it rest.
  16. 16Make the gravy: Bang a pan on, turn the heat on, and put a knob of butter in.
  17. 17Slowly introduce some flour.
  18. 18Put some stock in it and bring it to a boil, then strain it through a sieve.
  19. 19Serve it up: put some mash on a plate, a couple of carrots, then top with the lamb and gravy.

Ingredients

  • 1 lamb shoulder
  • 2 onions
  • 1 bunch carrots
  • 1 head garlic
  • 1 kg potatoes
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 1 beef stock
  • 1 cream
  • 1 sprig rosemary
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch pepper
  • 1 olive oil
  • 1 half a pack butter
  • 1 flour

Equipment

knifebaking trayaluminum foilpotwhisktongs