Name: Garlicky lamb cutlets with Sicilian-style greens
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 8 lamb cutlets (choose your favourite cut); 2 fat garlic cloves thinly sliced; 2-3 rosemary sprigs; 4 tbsp olive oil; 4 banana shallots (or 8-10 shallots), finely sliced; 2 tbsp light brown soft sugar or demerara; 3 tbsp sherry vinegar; 85g sultanas; 50g toasted pine nuts; 200g asparagus spears (after snapping off woody ends); 200g podded and skinned broad beans (see tip)

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Garlicky lamb cutlets with Sicilian-style greens

Garlicky lamb cutlets with Sicilian-style greens

Sarah Cook

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 45 mins

plus at least 30 mins marinating

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Marinate lamb with rosemary, then serve with an asparagus, broad bean and spinach salad with juicy sultanas and tangy shallots

Gluten-free

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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8 lamb cutlets

(choose your favourite cut)
2 fat garlic cloves

thinly sliced
2-3 rosemary

sprigs
4 tbsp olive oil
4 banana shallots

(or 8-10 shallots), finely sliced
2 tbsp light brown soft sugar

or demerara
3 tbsp sherry vinegar
85g sultanas
50g toasted pine nuts
200g asparagus

spears (after snapping off woody ends)
200g podded and skinned broad beans

(see tip)

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal753
fat51g
saturates17g
carbs34g
sugars28g
fibre10g
protein35g
salt0.5g

Method

step 1

Use a small sharp knife to poke a few holes in each lamb cutlet, then push in slivers of garlic and rosemary leaves. Rub all over with 1 tbsp of the olive oil and leave to marinate for up to a day in the fridge, or at room temperature for 30 mins.
step 2

Put the remaining oil, the shallots and 1 rosemary sprig in a big frying pan. Gently cook until the shallots are very soft and golden. Remove the rosemary sprig and discard, then add the sugar, sherry vinegar and sultanas. Cook for another few mins to plump up the fruit, then stir in the pine nuts and set aside.
step 3

Heat a big pan of water until boiling, then add the asparagus and broad beans for 1 1/2 mins. Tip in the peas, count to 10, then drain everything. Halve the asparagus spears lengthways.
step 4

Heat the grill or a griddle pan and season the lamb. Warm up the shallot mixture, then tip in all the cooked veg, plus the spinach with some seasoning. Stir together and gently warm through while you grill or griddle the lamb for 1-2 mins each side or until cooked to your liking. Serve with the veg.

RECIPE TIPS

DOUBLE PODDING BROAD BEANS

You can eat small broad beans in their skins, but bigger ones are pretty indigestible, so it's worth skinning or ‘double podding’ them. To do this, blanch podded beans in boiling water for 30 seconds, then drain. Run under cold water to stop the cooking process and slip them from their skins to reveal the shiny beans. If you are using frozen beans, simply pour a kettle of boiling water over, then remove the skins.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2015

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