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Slow Cooked Lamb in Beer
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Slow Cooked Lamb in Beer

Total time

195 mins

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Prep

15 mins

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Cook

180 mins

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Per head

£5.42

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Difficulty

Hard

Tender lamb shoulder slow-braised in dark ale until it falls apart. Rich, warming and deeply flavourful, worth every minute.

Did you know?

Britain has been cooking lamb since Roman times, when sheep were kept primarily for wool and milk. Using beer in cooking dates back to medieval England, when ale was added to stews instead of water, which was often unsafe to drink.

Ingredients

Serves
  • 1 (medium, finely diced) onion
  • 2 (medium, peeled and diced) carrot
  • to taste salt
  • to taste black pepper
  • 500g, cut into chunks lamb shoulder
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 cloves, minced garlic
  • 1 bottle dark ale
  • 1 bay leaves
  • 1 bunch thyme
  • 1 sprig rosemary
  • 240ml lamb stock
  • 1 tbsp tomato puree

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