Name: Slow-roast Persian lamb with pomegranate salad
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 50 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 4 tbsp pomegranate molasses; 1 tsp ground cumin; juice 1 lemon; 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 garlic cloves minced; 1 onion roughly chopped; 1 shoulder of lamb weighing about 1.6kg, lightly scored; seeds 2 pomegranates; handful flat-leaf parsley leaves; 100g bag watercress; 1 small red onion finely diced; 1 tbsp olive oil; flatbreads to serve

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Slow-roast Persian lamb with pomegranate salad

Slow-roast Persian lamb with pomegranate salad

Barney Desmazery

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Serves 6

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 3 hrs and 30 mins

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This sweet, meltingly-tender lamb makes a show-stopping dinner party dish

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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For the lamb

4 tbsp pomegranate molasses
1 tsp ground cumin
juice 1 lemon
1 tbsp olive oil
2 garlic cloves

minced
1 onion

roughly chopped
1 shoulder of lamb

weighing about 1.6kg, lightly scored

For the salad

seeds 2 pomegranates
handful flat-leaf parsley

leaves
100g bag watercress
1 small red onion

finely diced
1 tbsp olive oil
flatbreads

to serve

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal554
fat39g
saturates18g
carbs15g
sugars13g
fibre2g
protein37g
salt0.35g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. In a small bowl, mix the molasses with the cumin, lemon juice, olive oil and garlic. Scatter the onion over a casserole dish or a deep roasting tin. Place the lamb on top of the onions. Pour the glaze over the lamb. Rinse the bowl out with about 200ml water, then pour it around – not over – the lamb.
step 2

Cover the dish with a lid or the tin with a large piece of foil. Roast the lamb, undisturbed, for 3 hrs, then remove the lid or foil and continue to roast for 30 mins to give the lamb colour. When the lamb has had its time, pour off the juices, remove as much fat as possible, then pour the juices back over the lamb.
step 3

Just before serving, gently toss all the salad ingredients together. Serve the lamb with its sauce, the salad and some warmed flatbreads.

RECIPE TIPS

JEWELLED COUSCOUS

Cook 200g couscous and mix with 150g pomegranate seeds, a chopped handful mint, the juice 1 orange and 2 tbsp each olive oil and white wine vinegar. Serves 4.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2010

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