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Mark’s Slow Roast Lamb Shoulder, Dressed Couscous and Broad Bean Salad

This Slow-Roasted Lamb is the perfect Summer dish!
4 people

Ingredients

  • 1 whole lamb shoulder
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tablesp. olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, peeled
  • 1 lemon, zest sliced off
  • 100g broad beans
  • 2 chicken stock cubes/stockpots
  • 300g couscous
  • 50g rocket
  • Handful of flat leaf parsley
  • Handful of mint
  • 100g toasted fruit and nut mix
  • 50g St Tola greek-style cheese
  • 100ml olive oil,

1 level tablesp. mustard

50ml vinegar

Black pepper

Any additional dried spices

1 red onion, thinly sliced

Lamb
  • 1 whole lamb shoulder
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tablesp. olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, peeled
  • 1 lemon, zest sliced off
  • 100g broad beans
  • 2 chicken stock cubes/stockpots
  • 300g couscous
  • 50g rocket
  • Handful of flat leaf parsley
  • Handful of mint
  • 100g toasted fruit and nut mix
  • 50g St Tola greek-style cheese
Salad Dressing
  • 100ml olive oil,

1 level tablesp. mustard

50ml vinegar

Black pepper

Any additional dried spices

1 red onion, thinly sliced

Method

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Preheat your oven to 150°C.

Spread some tinfoil on your workbench, lay the whole lamb shoulder on top, sprinkle with salt and olive oil. Stick a knife in the shoulder creating 8 holes, fill these holes with 4 garlic cloves and lemon zest. Wrap the tinfoil into a parcel and place on a tray in the oven, cook for 3 hours at 150°C. Depending on your schedule, use the following times:

150°C for 3 hours

130°C for 5 hours

110°C for 7 hours

200°C for 1½ hours

Turn up the heat up to 220°C for the last 15-20 minutes and remove the top of the tinfoil.

Dip the beans in boiling, salted water for 1 minute, peel and place in a bowl.

Heat 1 litre of water and dissolve the stock cubes in this, pour over the couscous and cover with a lid for 5 minutes. Mix the couscous with a fork then add the beans, rocket, parsley, mint and fruit and nut mix and combine with a spoon.

Make a simple dressing by adding the olive oil, mustard, vinegar and whatever spices you have in cupboard, add the sliced onion to this and toss, pour this over the salad, finish by crumbling the feta on top.

Remove the lamb shoulder from the oven and pull away the meat from the bone using a fork. Season the meat with some salt and lemon juice and zest. Serve the lamb along with the couscous salad.

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Method

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Preheat your oven to 150°C.

Spread some tinfoil on your workbench, lay the whole lamb shoulder on top, sprinkle with salt and olive oil. Stick a knife in the shoulder creating 8 holes, fill these holes with 4 garlic cloves and lemon zest. Wrap the tinfoil into a parcel and place on a tray in the oven, cook for 3 hours at 150°C. Depending on your schedule, use the following times:

150°C for 3 hours

130°C for 5 hours

110°C for 7 hours

200°C for 1½ hours

Turn up the heat up to 220°C for the last 15-20 minutes and remove the top of the tinfoil.

Dip the beans in boiling, salted water for 1 minute, peel and place in a bowl.

Heat 1 litre of water and dissolve the stock cubes in this, pour over the couscous and cover with a lid for 5 minutes. Mix the couscous with a fork then add the beans, rocket, parsley, mint and fruit and nut mix and combine with a spoon.

Make a simple dressing by adding the olive oil, mustard, vinegar and whatever spices you have in cupboard, add the sliced onion to this and toss, pour this over the salad, finish by crumbling the feta on top.

Remove the lamb shoulder from the oven and pull away the meat from the bone using a fork. Season the meat with some salt and lemon juice and zest. Serve the lamb along with the couscous salad.