Lamb dishes in the oven

Dishes from mutton in the oven are involuntarily associated with good old England, Sunday lunch, glasses of mulled wine, fireplace and Sherlock Holmes. Therefore, the review of recipes should begin with a few purely English traditional lamb dishes.

To do this, we need a two kilogram ram's shoulder blade, I must say that the sheep of the English breed are bigger than ours, and if the sheep's scapula you bought is less than two kilograms, do not worry, reduce the time of her stay in the oven. Two cloves of garlic, which must be very thinly cut. Sixteen shoots of rosemary 2 cm each. Olive oil. Salt and freshly ground pepper. Six potatoes of 180 grams each. One kilogram of unclean gourd, cut into 5-centimeter pieces. Tablespoon of plain flour. One and a half cups of beef broth and 500 grams of green peas.

So, let's begin. First of all, it will be necessary to warm up the oven to T = 220 C and make a small sharp knife in meat with 16 centimetric slits. In each slot, you need to put chopped garlic and a sprig of rosemary. We put the spatula in the baking dish, grease it with olive oil, sprinkle with pepper and put into the oven for 15 minutes. The first stage was successfully completed. Lamb dishes in the oven, usually a troublesome and long process, but this English recipe does not seem to create much difficulty. Let's see what will happen next.

We reduce the temperature in the oven to 180 ° C, and at this time we are preparing the potatoes. We cut it into four parts, put it in a large cup, add two tablespoons of olive oil, salt, we taste it. We put the pumpkin in another cup, salt-pepper, pour oil. We approach the third stage of the "rally" - roast lamb in English.

We remove the spatula from the oven and lay our potatoes along the edge of the mold, prepare the dish in this form for another 40 minutes, then lay the pumpkin around the leg and prepare the next 50 minutes. English chefs claim that after going through all these stages you will get a well-baked roast of lamb with potatoes. Go ahead.

We pull out the shovel from the mold and put it on the dish, cover it with foil and set it aside - let it rest a little. Increase the temperature in the oven to 230 C and return our vegetables back to the oven. And we will do the sauce or, as the British call it, the greywi.

We put the frying pan on the middle fire, pour the flour and fry it for a minute, stirring it with a wooden spatula. We raise the beef broth and pour it into a skillet. We increase the flame to a strong one. We bring the mixture to a boil constantly stirring, and we reduce the flame to medium. We cook in the course of 4-5 minutes, until the gravy thickens. Serve lamb with vegetables, gravy and green peas.

Lamb dishes in the oven are also popular in Ireland. Preheat oven to 200 C. Meat is cut into pieces (600 g). Potatoes (750 g) and carrots (500 g) are cut into cubes, about a centimeter in size, onions (250 g) are cut in circles. Half of the vegetables are laid out in layers in a baking dish, peppered, salted, top layer of meat and pepper-salt. Now the vegetables are stacked in the reverse order, peppered, salted and sprinkled with sliced greens. All this building is filled with broth and put in the oven for two hours. Do not forget to close the form with a lid.

As we see, lamb dishes in the oven on the British Isles are prepared in the same way. There is always potatoes and vegetables. Vegetables are used in a variety of ways. Especially popular is lamb with savoy cabbage. It is simply cut - cut in two, the stump is removed, and the cabbage itself is cut into thin strips. If you take the previous recipe as a basis, then you just need to add two more layers of cabbage. Stew is obtained even juicier, aromatic and tastier. Try it - you will not regret it!