In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb.
I’ve just come back from an early morning bike ride. There’s a definite air of Autumn in the wind I cycled into on my way back home. It’s this time of year where I start craving hearty comfort food – casseroles, slow cooked dishes, carbohydrates… too many carbohydrates!
To be honest, I make this particular dish year round with various cuts of lamb. It’s also my summer-time ‘I’m going out on a day’s adventure and want my food ready for me when I get home because I’m going to be starving‘ go-to recipe. In which case I quite literally throw everything into the slow cooker first thing in the morning, head out for my adventure, and then when I get home I pop the broad beans in to warm up, wash up for dinner and whip up some couscous to serve.
Proper comfort food in a bowl. Any leftovers reheat really, really well the next day. I think the flavours develop even further over night. Reheat in the oven for 30 minutes, with the lid on, and there’s two day’s worth of dinner with very little effort. My kind of cooking!
I’ve featured broad beans in this particular version of my family-favourite recipe as they regularly make an appearance in my veg box this time of year. I absolutely love fresh broad beans – there’s nothing else like them. Honestly, don’t be tempted to replace fresh beans with frozen ones or (gah!) tinned, as it just won’t be the same.
Fresh broad beans need double podding – something I realise many people are not aware of. When you first remove the beans out of their giant pea pods each little bean is encased in another light green rubbery layer. Boil them for four minutes, drain and blanch them in a bowl of cold water and then spend the next ten minutes quite therapeutically using your thumbnail to slice open the side of the light green case and let the vibrant green broad bean slip out.
If you can’t source fresh broad beans feel free to use a tin of drained chickpeas instead. It still works. You could also replace the apricots with dates or prunes if you wish.
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Slow-Cooked Lamb Casserole with Broad Beans & Apricots
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp sunflower oil divided
- 600 grams cubed lamb shoulder
- 40 grams plain flour seasoned with salt and pepper
- 600 grams lamb ribs (optional)
- 2 large onions halved and finely sliced
- 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- 350 ml lamb stock
- 1 pinch saffron threads
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 100 grams dried apricots chopped
- 1 kg fresh broad beans
- Shetland sea salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- fresh coriander leaves to garnish
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Instructions
the oven version
- Preheat oven to 160C / 150 C fan.
- Place the plain flour in a bowl or ziplock bag and season well with salt and pepper. Dredge the cubed lamb shoulder and set aside.
- Heat 1 tbsp of the sunflower oil and brown half the lamb all over. Transfer to a casserole dish with a lid and repeat with another tbsp of sunflower oil and the remaining lamb shoulder.
- Heat the remaining oil in the same pan and sear the lamb ribs, if using, until browned. Add to the casserole dish and sprinkle over the halved, thinly sliced onions.
- Add the smoked paprika to the pan and cook for a few seconds before deglazing the pan with the lamb stock, scraping up all the bits stuck to the bottom of the pan.
- Pour the stock over the lamb, add the saffron threads and the cinnamon stick and cover with a tightly fitting lid. If your lid doesn't fit tightly so that steam won't escape, wrap the casserole dish in a layer or two of aluminium foil.
- Slow cook in the centre of the oven for 2 hours.
- Meanwhile, bring a large pan of water to the boil while you pod the broad beans.
- Simmer the podded broad beans for 4 minutes, drain and plunge into a bowl of cold water. Remove the second layer of light green skin off the broad beans to reveal a vibrant green inner bean.
- At the end of two hours, add the broad beans and chopped apricots to the casserole dish. Season well to taste and slow cook for a further 15-20 minutes until the beans are hot.
- Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve with couscous and flatbread.
the slow cooker version
- Stick everything except the broad beans into a slow cooker and cook on low for 6-7 hours, adding the broad beans for the last half an hour.
Notes
OTHER LAMB RECIPES YOU MIGHT LIKE
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BBQ Lamb Leg Steaks in a Herb Marinade
Leftover Roast Lamb & Mint Sausage Rolls
Quick & Easy BBQ Lamb Skewers
BBQ Lamb Leg Steaks with Harissa & Mint
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Street Food: Brazilian-Style Lamb Kibe
Chilean-inspired Lamb Burgers with Pebre & Marraqueta Buns
Brazilian-inspired Lamb Feijoada with Mango Salsa
Slow Cooker Lamb Chilli with Pasilla Peppers
Argentine-inspired Lamb Chops with Chimichurri
Lamb Casserole with Ale
Mediterranean-inspired BBQ Koftas, Couscous Salad & Baharat Yogurt Dip
Slow-cooked Shetland Lamb Casserole with Creamy Herbed Polenta
Pastitsio – Greek Macaroni Pie
Lamb, Butternut Squash & Apricot Tagine
7-Hour Spiced Pulled Leg of Lamb
Roast Harissa Lamb with Harissa Apricots Stuffing
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woah! This is super delicious… loved it and even tried it. cooking was perfect. Thanks for sharing this 🙂
This sounds really delicious! I am going to try this and try and blend a portion for my baby as I think she’d like the sweetness of the apricots. I’ll let you know what she thinks! X
ooh, your food always looks so delicious, Elizabeth 🙂 I love lamb dishes so I’m definitely going to have to give this a try. I love making a casserole at this time of year.
Louise x
This makes a great dish for dinner. Our family loves lamb above any types of meat because it is a lot healthier also a lot pricey too.
This is on my list for winter dishes!! I love lamb and that looks so tastey and right up my street. Only thing I’d change would be beans for broccoli. Thank you for posting this dish.
This looks yum. I am not good in cooking. You’re recipe seems easy to follow.
Looks so yummy! Slurp! Slurp! I am gonna make this at home.
This looks delicious! What a great fall meal when the weather is cool.
What a beautiful unique recipe. So wonderful for the upcoming cold-weather months. I can hardly wait for cooler weather to arrive in California. I’ll be the perfect time to try this delicious recipe.
This looks delish! Would make a perfect comfort food on colder days.
Oh that looks so heartwarming and its the perfect casserole for autumn nights. I can imagine that the apricot and broad beans complements the dish wonderfully x
I’ll be honest. I’ve never been a fan of lamb (I’ve only tried it once, so I should probably give it another shot), but your pictures make it look amazing! This recipe looks delicious.
I’v never had lamb before. Boy, this looks like the perfect recipe to try it on though!
This recipe looks really yummy. I love lamb!!
This is so yummyyyyy!!! The photos alone are making my mouth water.
That is an amazing recipe. It looks so yummy. Thank you for sharing it. Will try it out for sure.
This just says warm, comforting and wholesome and I havent even tried it!
Hmm… I might have to try this soon. It looks delicious!
What a great discovery! I’ve never combined beans with lamb and now it’s all I can think of! I love my slow cooker and this will be my next try!
This looks & sounds amazing. I didn’t know that about the broad beans having two shells, although I’ve never had them fresh. I’ll have to try them out as I’ve never really liked the tinned ones
Get in ma belly!! These looks absolutely AMAZING! I have only recently started adding cinnamon to dinner dishes and have been pleasantly surprised with the results. It tastes so yummy!
I love lamb and this looks so delicious. I would love to make this for dinner soon.
I am always looking for new recipes to try. This looks so delicious. I am sure it will be a big hit.
My husband would love this recipe. I’m not big on lamb but I do make it from time to time. I’ll have to try this!
This looks really good and yummy. Would really like to try it out sometime.
Oh, this sounds great. I love dishes that include fruit. I just made a lamb curry tonight, wish I’d done this now!
Cinnamon… Lamb shoulder… So delicious. Lamb is one of my favourite meat. I go crazy whenever I see a recipe with lamb. Thanks for sharing.
This looks so amazing. I’ll have to make this when it starts to get chilly. It’s the perfect thing to warm my bones!
I hate saying this but Lamb is are absolute favorite in this house. This looks delish and it makes me feel all autumnal!!
This recipe sounds wonderful and the food looks amazing on your pictures! I am so going to try this out!
I love all the different things you can do with a slowcooker, I totally need to get mine out and start trying out some of the delicious recipes starting with this one.
I tried this recipe and absolutely fell in love with it. Will keep coming back for more
I loovcee anything with meat. So, I am going to save this recipe. Looks very yum
Beautiful photos! Looks healthy and delicious – wish I could try it 🙂
I love lamb dishes and so does my partner so I will definitely try this recipe some day. It looks so delicious.
I have never tried lamb, but I heard it is delicious! This looks amazing, so I may have to give it a try!
Oh wow.
This sounds fabulous it also looks like it’s exceptionally healthy!!
I can totally imagine the smell of it right Now!
This sounds lovely. Even better, my neighbour has just given me some broad beans out of her garden…perfect timing, I think!
This looks delicious. I love lamb and it is especially wonderful in casseroles
Yum this look delish I have a feeling i might be getting a slow cooker for my birthday so this is is really handy for me. xx
Wow this couldn’t be any more relevant right now. I have a leg of lamb in the fridge right now and I was just thinking how to cook it as we are a little bored of our usual ways!
Stunning dish and beautiful photography. Perfect for the coming Autumn to cosy up with.
This looks divine! Perfect for the autumn evenings!!
That looks incredible! I’m off traveling for a few months and tomorrow’s my last full day at home so I’m having a few friends over. I was going to make pizza but now I’m kind of tempted to do this!
This looks delicious. We actually had lamb for dinner and it is one of my favourites, although we don’t have it often. xx
Oh god this looks delicious and I’ve not had dinner yet ! 🙂