If you bake the lamb with potatoes correctly, it will turn out juicy, soft and appetizing. How to cook delicious lamb with potatoes in the oven, read the step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
The most delicious lamb with potatoes baked in a cauldron, however, at home, such a dish is no less tasty cooked in the oven. The combination of lamb and potatoes is a hearty and nutritious dish that will make an excellent family lunch or dinner and is perfect for a festive feast. Ruddy baked potatoes and the most tender meat will not leave anyone indifferent. Lamb meat turns out to be very tender, juicy and aromatic.
Before you start cooking, it is important to choose the right lamb. Since the characteristic specific smell of lamb prevents it from taking a confident place on our everyday table. A sufficiently persistent and unpleasant aroma can ruin any dish. But experienced chefs assure that you can fight it. The most ideal meat of a young lamb (milk lamb) up to 3 months. He does not have a specific smell, unlike the old animal. Old lamb is dark red in color, so the lighter the meat the better. If it is impossible to buy a milk lamb, give preference to animal meat up to 18 months. But completely remove the fat from it before cooking, and if the smell is too pronounced, then boil it first, and then bake it. This is a good solution for lamb in a pot in the oven, because there is no need to serve meat as a whole "piece".
- Caloric content per 100 g - 112 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Lamb ribs - 500 kg
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Bay leaf - 3 pcs.
- Potatoes - 6-8 pcs.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Allspice peas - 6 pcs.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Vegetable oil - for frying
Step by step cooking lamb with potatoes in the oven, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the lamb, dry it with a paper towel and cut into bones. If ribs are missing, any other part of the carcass can be used. If there is fat on the meat, cut it off.
2. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet and fry the ribs on both sides until golden brown. It is not necessary to bring them to readiness, tk. they will still languish in the oven. Season them with salt and black pepper during frying.
3. Peel the onions, wash and chop into thin half rings. Send the onion to the lamb pan.
4. Continue to fry food until the onions are translucent.
5. Peel the potatoes, wash and cut into medium-sized cubes.
6. Take 3 serving pots and place the fried lamb ribs and onions over them.
7. Arrange the chopped potatoes on top of the meat in the pots.
8. Season the tubers with salt, black pepper and any spices, add bay leaves and allspice peas. Pour 50 ml of drinking water into pots, close the lids and send to the oven for 1 hour, turning on the temperature of 180 degrees. Do not put pots in a hot oven, otherwise they may crack due to a sharp temperature drop.
Serve the cooked lamb with potatoes in the oven hot in the pots in which the dish was prepared. They will keep warm for a long time and the food will not cool down.
See also a video recipe on how to cook lamb with potatoes and onions.
