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Lamb cooked on hay, served with boulangère potatoes
Photo: Emiliano Vittoriosi

Lamb cooked on hay, served with boulangère potatoes

14 ingredients 30 min + 2 hr Serves 4 openrecipes

Cooking lamb in hay gives it a delightfully earthy and smoky taste. Buy clean hay from a pet shop or garden centre.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

926
Calories
63g
Protein
50g
Fat
57g
Carbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Lamb 100g cooked 294
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Potato 1 medium (173g) baked 161
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Fennel 1/2 bulb (87g) 27
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Seed not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • dash olive oil
  • 1 onion
  • 1 leek
  • 1 fennel
  • 2 garlic
  • 1 fresh thyme
  • 1 tsp fennel seeds
  • 50g/2oz butter
  • 500ml/18fl oz lamb or chicken stock
  • 700g/1lb 9oz potatoes
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • dash olive oil
  • ½ bag of hay (clean eating hay from the petshop and not bedding hay)
  • 1 rack of lamb

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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