Lamb Neck Cooking Recipes

Lamb is considered to be dietary meat. The level of cholesterol here is quite low, and the fat is one and a half times less than in pork. Rich in vitamins and minerals, lamb is a very useful meat product.In this article, our attention will be focused on the recipes for cooking lamb neck, since for cooking it is best to take this particular part of the animal. Properly cooked lamb meat on the bone is perfect for a festive table, and for a family dinner, being not only a useful, but also a very tasty dish.

Buying a lamb neck on the market, it is worth considering a few points.

1. The lamb neck should not be cooked whole; it is best to ask the butcher to cut it into medallions when buying meat. Otherwise, the meat can be cooked for hours.
2. Choose a product from a young animal. Meat from an elderly lamb often has an unpleasant odor.
3. Do not buy lamb with an abundance of yellow fat, as well as the one that has a dark color and a suspicious flavor.

There are several delicious lamb neck recipes that you can master at home. Let's stop on some of them.

To prepare the dish you will need the following ingredients:

• a kilo of lamb (in our case it’s about 5 pieces of the neck);
• 40 grams of olive oil;
• 10 cloves of garlic;
• 5-6 sprigs of rosemary;
• 5-10 grams of ground black pepper;
• 30-40 sprigs of thyme;
• 7 large pinches of salt;
• 2 teaspoons of spirits.

First you need to cook the marinade for meat. It will help get rid of unpleasant odors, if present. To prepare the marinade, you can use a mortar or knife. When choosing the first method, we simply put herbs, peppercorns, salt, zira, garlic in a mortar and, adding olive oil, grind everything to a homogeneous mass.

In the event that there is no mortar on hand, you can cut rosemary with a knife and remove the leaves from the thyme. In this case, garlic should be slightly crushed with a palm and cut perpendicular to the crushed fibers into small pieces. Now combine and mix all the elements of the marinade.

Then, having already prepared marinade, we carefully lubricate the pieces of meat with them. We are waiting for about 2 hours so that the meat is soaked. Next, each piece must be wrapped in foil. To do this, you must use the densest foil you can find. It would be ideal to wrap a piece in two layers of foil, this is necessary in order to prevent juices from flowing out during baking.

Now put everything in the oven for about 40 minutes, setting the temperature to 200 degrees. It is very important not to overdo the meat in the oven, check it 30 minutes after the start of cooking, cutting one of the pieces - if the meat is pink, then the dish is ready. Refried lamb will have a gray color. Mutton meat should be eaten hot, because after cooling the dish loses its "zest".

Also, lamb, pickled in the above way, you can quickly and tasty cooked on a fire using the grill and the same instructions as for cooking in the oven.

This dish is perfect for the holiday table, because of its appearance and delicious taste. To make four servings, you need the following ingredients:

• kilogram of lamb neck;
• 200 grams of mushrooms;
• one carrot;
• two bell peppers;
• one onion;
• three cloves of garlic;
• 5-6 cardamom fruits;
• spices to taste;
• tablespoon of soy sauce.

First you need to fry the pieces of meat in a hot frying pan until the moment when they appear on a reddish crust. Next, put the meat in the pot, and after him send all the ingredients, except onions and peppers. Mutton should be stewed on a small fire for an hour. In parallel, you can fry onions in a pan together with bell pepper.

After the lamb is steeped, add onions and peppers, and then mix the ingredients. The dish is ready, and now it can be served at the table.

If you do not rush to cooking meat, you can leave it to marinate overnight. To do this, you need to mix the following ingredients in a cup:

• salt;
• red chili;
• ground cumin and cilantro;
• finely chopped fresh basil.

Each medallion should be rubbed with this mixture, folded in a cup or pan, and covered with something, left overnight in the refrigerator.

You can combine ready-made lamb neck with a variety of products: mashed potatoes, zucchini, legumes, stewed cabbage, fresh vegetable salads. Some housewives combine the product with dates and apricots.

How to cook lamb neck, see the following video.