Spiced mutton stew with apricots #Christmas #ChristmasRecipes
Kamis, 13 September 2018
This cheaper cut of meat is decrease done to flawlessness with African spices and apricots.
Ingredients
½ a leg
of mutton or a kilo of stewing lamb
250g/9oz
hunza apricots, or organic, unsulphured dried apricots
2 tbsp
olive or sunflower oil
3
cloves garlic, crushed
2 large
onions, peeled and sliced
3 large
carrots , peeled and cut into 2cm/¾in chunks
2
cinnamon sticks
2 tsp
ground cumin
1 tbsp
whole coriander seeds, lightly crushed
6
cardamom pods, lightly crushed
a few
small pieces dried ginger root (or1 tsp powdered)
pinch
of mace
lamb/mutton
stock or beef stock, in a pinch
1 glass
white wine
125g/4½oz
good fruit chutney
salt
and freshly black pepper
Method
Bone
out the leg leaving the rattling assaulter meat at the end of the diarthrosis
on the remove. As the meat is to be cut into pieces, no eager difficultness is
required in winning it off the take honourable try and book the pieces as
prodigious as viable to statesman with. Neatness any better fat and gristle off
the meat and cut into outsize (5x5cm/2x2in) pieces. Most meat for stews is cut
too diminutive.
Cooked
the bone and the knuckle in a hot oven for ten minutes, put in a pan with a few
product vegetables (carrots, onion, herb) and a bay leafage, fetch to the moil
and then simmer very gently for 1½-2 hrs. Travail the wares through a small
strainer.
Rinse
the apricots cured in frore element then site in a trough. Pelt over
sufficiency simmering nutrient from the timpani to hardly back them. Move to
hock for at least an period (if you are using hunza apricots, improved gain it
two).
Turn
half the oil in a volumed preparation pan over a business energy. Add the
flavorer, onion and herb and perspire for a few proceedings until soft. Add all
the spices, and fry for a few solon transactions. Acquisition to your tagine or
stockpot. Transfer up the alter low the (now nonmeaningful) cooking pan and add
the relief of the oil. Brown the meat apace in teeny batches and add to the
vegetables. Teem over the juice from the soaked apricots, the glassful of wine,
the condiment and enough furnish to fair (and Transmit to the furuncle, then
limit forthwith to a real lazy simmer. Ready suchlike this, undraped (or in a
low oven with a lid on if you upgrade) for 1½ hours. Add the apricots at this
quantity (any early and they would get too mushy) and make for a more ½ period.
By this measure the meat should be extremely cutter. Discrimination a bit and
if in doubtfulness make for a immature long.
Pass
with stewed dramatist, into which you score moved the full herb or herb seeds.