Nigella's paschal lamb

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 15
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 332.8
  • Total Fat: 10.9 g
  • Cholesterol: 106.4 mg
  • Sodium: 146.0 mg
  • Total Carbs: 15.3 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 6.0 g
  • Protein: 38.7 g

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Introduction

A real feast, easy to make, surprisingly low in cals, perfect with salad and bread. Perfect to leave unattended in the oven while you enjoy family and friends A real feast, easy to make, surprisingly low in cals, perfect with salad and bread. Perfect to leave unattended in the oven while you enjoy family and friends
Number of Servings: 15

Ingredients

    Leg lamb (2.6 kg), or shoulder, for fewer
    900g haricot (navy) beans
    1 carrot
    5 sticks celery
    4 cooking onions
    250 ml white wine
    Salt and pepper AT END
    Rosemary sprigs

Tips

1. Can easily be done with half the amount of beans and lamb (these proportions are very generous on the meat side)


Directions

1. Soak the beans overnight
2. Next day, boil beans in fresh cold water for 30 mins once boiling. Drain, reserving the cooking liquor
3. Seal the meat on all sides
4. At the same time, blend onions, carrot, celery together. Fry this vegetable mush in the same pan as the lamb for 5 mins
5. In a large roasting tray, combine veg and drained beans. De-glaze frying pan with the wine, add and stir. Place the meat over the beans, add c. 700ml of bean liquor and plenty of rosemary
6. Cover with foil and seal tightly. Then cook in oven for 2.5 hrs at 170c and then the same at 140C, or adjust time downwards and leave in hotter oven.
7. Check when there is c 1hr to go, removing foil to brown meat and cook off the cooking liquid as desired. At this point, check the beans, and if cooked ans softened, add salt and pepper (not before, as beans will stay hard!)
8. Leave in a low temp, covered, till ready to serve



Serving Size: 15 generous mains with bread and salad; with heavier sides, will serve many more

Number of Servings: 15

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user QWESTING.