Rick Steins Slow Cooked Greek Lamb recipe

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4/5 Another success in copying TV recipes, I note. Klapaucius)

This recipe is inspired by something I saw on Rick Stein's "From Venice to Istanbul" TV series recently.

He cooked Kleftiko Lamb and that included feta cheese and lots of ingredients that I won't be including - and a lot more that he didn't use. This will be my aide-memoir to enable me to replicate the recipe if it turns out to be good.

I loved the idea of a whole red pepper and lots of garlic - The recipe worked very well. Originally I cooked it for 4 hours but found that was probably too long. I would say if on high, the maximum needed (so the meat falls off the bone) is 3 hours.

Ingredients

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• Half a leg of lamb
• 2 carrots, peeled and sliced
• 1 parsnip, peeled and chopped
• 1 onion peeled and roughly chopped
• 8 cloves of garlic, smashed under a knife
• 1 red pepper, de-seeded and sliced
• 1 big sprig of rosemary
• 2 bay leaves
• 200 ml chicken stock
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 2 tablespoons olive oil15 block peppercorns
• 10 Szechuan peppercorns
• 1 tablespoon dried parslet
• 1 tablespoon dried oregano
• A few stalks of celery
• 8 button mushrooms, cleaned and left whole

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  After four hours in the slow cooker - one hour too long!

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  Slow-cooker lid sealed with tin-foil to reduce water loss.

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  Mushrooms and stock added.

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  Ready to go, just the stock, oil and lime juice to go.

Method

1. Pop everything in the slow cooker
2. Seal the edge of the slow cooker with scrunched-up tin-foil while it cooks
3. Cook on high for a maximum of 3 hours
4. Half-way through, give everything a good stir and turn the meat over
5. If it looks to be drying out, add a little more water, conversely, simmer over a high heat if there is too much liquid.

Serving suggestions

Serve with roast potatoes and vegetables of your choice.

Recipe source

• Very loosely based on Rick Stein's Kleftiko Lamb from his visit to Greece on his TV series.

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