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Slow-Cooked Lamb Casserole with Broad Beans & Apricots

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Slow Cooked Lamb Casserole with Broad Beans and Apricots

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!

Slow Cooked Lamb Casserole with Broad Beans and Apricots

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 and Apricots

Slow-Cooked Lamb Casserole with Broad Beans & Apricots

A simple, flavoursome recipe perfect for these colder evenings as Autumn draws in.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 3 hours
Total Time: 3 hours 15 minutes
Servings: 6 servings
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

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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

You can replace the broad beans with a tin of chickpeas, and the apricots with dates or prunes, if you like.

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Comments

  3. Sarah says

    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

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  4. Louise says

    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

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  6. Mel says

    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.

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  10. Denay DeGuzman says

    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.

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  13. Heidi says

    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.

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  20. Akamatra says

    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!

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  22. Chloe says

    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!

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  42. L dove says

    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!

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  45. Elodie says

    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!

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