Jason Gallagher, Chef Patron of the Stockbridge Restaurant in Edinburgh has created an alternative Easter lamb dish and has shared it with s.
Recipe: Lamb confit and potato gateau with roast rack of lambIngredients
- Lamb belly/ breast
- 1 lamb breasts
- 1 lge onion
- 1/2 head of garlic
- 1 carrot
- 1 stick of celery
- 1.5 lge sprigs of rosemary all roughly chopped
- ½ a bottle of red wine
- ½ a liter or until meat is covered of veal or chicken stock
- For the lamb
- 1/2 head garlic
- 2 sprigs of thyme
- 1/2 orange zest
- 1/4 inch ginger
- Enough duck fat to cover leg
- For the potatoes
- 4 lge potatos
- ½ pint double cream
- ½ pt milk
- ½ head of garlic
- Small handful of thyme
- Romesco Sauce
- 1 x red peppers...roasted and peeled
- ½ x red chilli chopped
- 1 x cloves of garlic
- 10 x sun dried tomatoes
- 25g basil
- 25g flat leaf parsley
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ tbspoon sherry vinegar
- 1.5 oz. toasted almonds...optional
- Place all in blender and blend until almost smooth.
Instructions
- Lamb Belly
- Lay out your lamb breasts skin side down, season with salt and pepper and sprinkle with chopped rosemary and garlic.
- Roll the lamb breast up like a Swiss roll and tie with string.
- Sear off in a pan with high sides, till browned all over sides, remove from pan and add the chopped vegetables and sweat off.
- Add lamb then deglaze the pan with red wine, reduce wine for 10 mins then add stock to cover the lamb.
- Cover the pan with a lid or tin foil then place in an oven for 4-5 hours at Gas mark 2 or 150 degrees.
- Take out and leave to cool, then wrap tightly in cling film.
- Leave overnight then the next day slice into 2-3 cm slices and sear on both sides till golden brown, heat in the oven for 10 mins and serve.
- Lamb Confit and Potato Gateau
- Marinate your leg of lamb in sea salt for 24 hours.
- Wash off salt, place in dish with garlic, thyme, orange zest, ginger and duck fat
- Cover with tin foil – cook in a low oven gas mark 2 or 150 degrees for at least 6 hours or till meat falls off the bone.
- Let the confit cool a while and pick off the bone shredding at the same time.
- Heat double cream and milk in thyme and garlic until it thickens (coats the back of a spoon)
- Pass into a clean container.
- Line dish for gateau with silicon paper.
- Slice potato on a mandolin, then place in cream liquid, overlap each potato slice in the dish seasoning each layer – do 3 layers – then add lamb confit, another 3 layers of potatoes then lamb confit and another 3 layers of potato, pour over any excess cream, layer a piece of silicon paper on top, wrap in tin foil and bake at gas mark 3 for 3 hours or until a knife passes through it easily.
- Take out of oven and press on weights for 24 hours.
- Cut to desired shape and then reheat in oven
- Rack of Lamb
- Season your rack of lamb and seal in a very hot pan until coloured all over. Put in oven at gas mark 6 for 10-15 min. leave to rest
- Serve with a Romesco Sauce, spinach and girolle mushrooms