Search
Random Recipe
Minted Roast Lamb Breasts
Like everybody else we’re having to accept that food prices are increasing dramatically. But the increases don’t seem to be consistent. A Medium Chicken which was £2.29 less than a year ago is now £3.99. However Lamb which has always been a Budget Breaker doesn’t seem to have increased in price to the same extent. When I have time I generally buy the ‘Protein’ component first and we then build a recipe around it. So I’m now looking at the meats / cuts which used to be unaffordable, as we’re actually getting better flavours and better cuts than if we stick to what were to ‘In Budget’ offerings. If we’ve got to accept that staying within our £4 for 2 people daily budget is now almost impossible, we might just as well eat better slightly over budget.
These Lamb Breast cuts were £2.50 each and there was probably enough meat on one to share comfortably.
Ingredients:-
2 Lamb Rib / Breast cuts
3 Cloves of Garlic, minced
2 Tbsp of Olive Oil
Juice of ½ a Lemon
1 Tsp of Dried Mint
Salt & Pepper to season
Roast Vegetable Ingredients:-
10 Baby Potatoes, halved
1 Leek, sliced thickly
1 Red Onion, chopped
6 Shallots, peeled
1 Large Carrot, peeled and batoned
200ml of White Wine
A drizzle of Olive Oil
A Pinch of Sumac
A handful of fresh Mint (grown on our balcony)
Salt & Pepper to season
Method:-
(1) Combine the Oil, Lemon Juice, Mint and Garlic.
(2) Season with Salt & Pepper.
(3) Rub over the Lamb and allow to marinade in the fridge for an hour or so.
(4) Place the Ribs on a baking tray, covering tightly with foil.
(5) Cook at 160c in a pre-heated oven for 2 hours.
(6) Remove the foil, turn up the oven to 200c and cook for a further 20 minutes.
(7) Place all the Vegetables in a baking tray and pour over the Wine.
(8) Season with Salt & Pepper and drizzle with the Oil.
(9) Sprinkle with Sumac and cover with foil.
(10) Place in the oven with the Lamb after an hour on the bottom shelf.
(11) Remove the Lamb and allow to rest.
(12) Remove the foil from the Vegetables and move to the top shelf for 10 minutes.
Arrange the Vegetables on your plates, serve the Lamb over the top, garnished with chopped Mint.
On Facebook
- Details
- Written by Tony Carson
- Category: Recipes
We don’t do takeaways generally. Cost and the enjoyment of cooking ourselves make them a bit pointless. But sometimes we just fancy something snacky. The box of Chicken Drummers were loitering in the reductions, so…..
Ingredients:-
1 box of Chicken Drummers
1 tub of Buttermilk
Plain (Gluten free in our case) Flour
Chilli flakes
Garlic Salt
Onion Salt
Hot Paprika powder
Mixed herbs
Salt and Pepper
Method:-
(1) Season the Chicken with the dressing mix excluding the Flour and let it take on the flavours.
(2) Place in a bowl in the Buttermilk and refrigerate for a least 2 hours.
(5) Coat the Chicken in the seasoning mixture.
(6) Roast at 180C for about 30 minutes.
We had crispy coated Onion Rings using the same seasoning - deep fried, Potato Wedges, home made Gluten free Garlic bread, home made Coleslaw, home made Marie Rose sauce and a dressed Salad.
- Details
- Written by Tony Carson
- Category: Recipes
Yes you read it right STANLEY KNIFE! It's just a tip. (But it's the tip that matters!)
When I worked in the butchers shop we generally asked if folk wanted their Pork rind scored. Geoff my grumpy old collegue used to offer this advice to those ladies who declined " Well if you want good crackling ask hubby to get the Stanley Knife out when you get back" - a bit sexist, but he was old!
Why a Stanley Knife? Well in the butchers shop we had the ability to sharped our knives right to the tip. At home you often find that the long edge of your knife is shape but the tip is quite hard to sharpen. A DIY type of knife blade is ground at the right angle for the steel it is made from and although they are intended to be thrown away when they are blunt, a new blaide is excellent for scoring the rind on Pork.
Rub a bit of Mustard powder, salt and oil into the cuts and start your roast off at 220C then turn it down. Fail safe crackling. BUT if your meat has been frozen you might still end up with shoe leather regardless!
- Details
- Written by Tony Carson
- Category: Recipes
We had some left over Chicken, vegetables and mash Potatoes. To me that spells Bubble N Squeak. But that’s a bit boring really isn’t it?
So we blitzed a quarter of a Giant Yorkshire Pudding to make Gluten Free “Bread Crumbs”, Used a glass the press the Bubble N Squeak into disks and crumbed them!
Served with home made Marie Rose sauce as a bit of a dressing, jacket spuds and a bit of veg we had a very substantial meal for about £1 each!
- Details
- Written by Tony Carson
- Category: Recipes
We had some of Susan Rimington's Kebda sauce left over from yesterdays virtual trip to The Yemen in the fridge. ( http://www.eatwellonuc.org.uk/index.php/recipes/153-yemeni-kebda ) With the addition of a couple of Carrots and Onions we've just had a pretty spectacular roast Chicken casserole.
We had ours with Mustard mashed spud and Red & Green Cabbage. It’s a Bubble and Squeak gig with the left over Chicken, mash and veg tomorrow, nothing goes to waste here!
- Details
- Written by Tony Carson
- Category: Recipes
We've had quite a few fairly complicated dishes recently. Generally within our £4 budget. But sometimes we just fancy something simple. It was my turn to cook the other evening and we had a leftover Turkey Drummer, so I threw this together. It's not "Big & Clever" but it did the trick on a warm evening.
Ingredients:-
- A Turkey Drummer cut into chunks with the ligament quills removed
- 2 hard boiled eggs
- Salad of your choice
- Grated Cheese
- Mayonnaise
- ¼ of a cooled giant Yorkshire Pudding (Gluten free in our case) broken up
Method:-
(1) Made your salad with the Salad, Turkey, halved boiled Eggs and Mayonnaise.
(2) Dress with the Yorkshire Pudding and Grated Cheese.
Social Links
Translate
Latest Recipes
Latest News
- Why do we do what we do?
- When you find the ships cat on the helm
- We're a month old!
- Universal Credit & Employment Agencies!
- UN Report on Poverty in the UK November 2018
- The Veg Box
- The rollout of Universal Credit will be delayed until 2023
- Petition the Government to fix Universal Credit
- Honesty from a Politician? Not really, but it's a start.
- Homeless - Trapped - Homeless again - This can't be right?
© 2026 Eat Well on UC