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Jamie Oliver’s Gnarly Madras Lamb Traybake

This intensely flavourful curried lamb traybake from Jamie Oliver is cooked low and slow, resulting in melt-in-the-mouth meat. Though it may take a while to cook, it's a hands-off dish with very little prep.

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Jamie Oliver

Introduction

Get this in the oven in no time, then sit back and enjoy the cooking aromas – perfect food to share.

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Ingredients

1 x 2kg lamb shoulder, bone in
1 x 180g jar of Madras curry paste
250g yellow split peas
3 red onions
4 tomatoes
1 potato
6cm piece of ginger
1 bulb of garlic
½ a bunch (15g) of coriander
12 cloves

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C, and boil the kettle.

Lightly score the skin side of the lamb all over in a criss-cross fashion, then season with sea salt and black pepper and rub with half of the curry paste.

Place the yellow split peas in your largest high-sided roasting tray, then peel, halve and add the onions. Halve the tomatoes and potato, peel and chop the ginger, break up the garlic bulb and roughly chop the coriander (stalks and all), then add everything to the tray, along with the remaining curry paste.

Stir in 1.2 litres of boiling kettle water, then sit the lamb on top, scatter over the cloves, tightly cover the tray with tin foil and carefully transfer to the oven to roast for 4½ hours, or until the lamb is super-tender and melt-in-your- mouth – there’s no need to check it, just let the oven do its thing.

Remove the foil, baste the lamb well with the juices from the tray, and cook for a final 30 minutes, or until golden and gnarly.

Pull off chunks of meat and divide between serving plates, discarding any bones. Break up the potato and stir it through the split peas and veg, then plate up, along with some of the tasty juices.

ENERGY 557kcal FAT 32g SAT FAT 13.2g PROTEIN 6.2g CARBS 32.4g SUGARS 6.6g SALT 0.9g FIBRE 6.2g.

Reviews

4.2 out of 5 stars

10 Ratings

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10 Comments

    default user avatar Tracey

    Brilliant, very tasty

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    default user avatar Kim

    Fabulous, however next time I cook this I’d only add 1/2 ltr of water as it was way too liquid at the end of the cooking time. Looked amazing!

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    default user avatar Mishka

    Magnificent

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    default user avatar Kerry Dixon

    Far too wet after 5 hours. Had to improvise by blitzing the veggies and split peas to create a curry sauce and whacked on some basmati.
    Disappointing.

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    default user avatar LOIS KELLY

    Lovely recipe the veggies taste amazing but! The curry paste overwhelms the flavour of the lamb I feel so I would use a lot less ON the lamb itself and possibly in the general recipe I would maybe halve it. Also my split peas didn’t soften! They still had quite a bite which didn’t lend itself to the Dahl. Wondering if they should have been pre- boiled?

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    default user avatar Gaynor

    Loved it!! So easy to make & absolutely delicious!

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    default user avatar Sam

    Really easy and really tasty!

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    default user avatar Duncan Watkins

    Great and quite subtle flavour…but 1.2l is too much water. Try 750ml and top up when you take the foil off after 4.5 hrs…I suspect even that may be too much

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    default user avatar Lee

    Wonder could I change it for goat

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    default user avatar Kirstie Playfair

    Looking fwd to trying this when I have fnds for dinner end Nov looks delish😋

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