Classic recipe
Let's start with a classic recipe. To prepare a dish in pots, you will need the following ingredients:
- lean lamb — 800 g,
- onions - 2 pcs.,
- potatoes - 12 pcs.,
- garlic - 5 cloves,
- carrots - 2 pcs.,
- water - 700 ml,
- butter - 4 tsp,
- vegetable oil - 100 ml,
- cheese - 100 g,
- Spices and salt to taste.
Let's start preparing this dish.it is necessary to prepare the lamb. First, defrost it, then rinse it thoroughly under running water and dry it with paper towels. Next, take a cutting board, a knife and cut the meat into small cubes. Now put a frying pan on the burner, pour 50 ml of vegetable oil into it and leave it on medium heat. After a minute, put the chopped lamb there. It needs to be fried until half-cooked. You can immediately add a little salt and pepper to the meat. If you decide to put fresh meat in the pots, then during cooking in the oven it will not have time to cook properly, and will also cake and stick together. Therefore, it is so important to pre-fry it in a frying pan. When the lamb is half-cooked, start preparing the vegetables. Chop the onion and carrot. They need to be chopped into small pieces. Then all these ingredients are laid out in another frying pan and fried a little - until golden brown. Be sure to stir them with a wooden spatula during this process so that they brown evenly. Then you need to peel the garlic cloves and then chop them finely. Do not crush them with a metal utensil, otherwise the ingredient will lose its flavor. After this, peel and chop the potatoes. Make sure to wash them first. You can chop them into cups, circles or strips. But you should not cut them too thinly, otherwise they will turn into puree, and the dish will turn out completely different. Now you can start laying out the ingredients. Before doing this, be sure to thoroughly wash and wipe the pots. Then grease them with vegetable oil. Next, put the meat on the bottom of each pot. The second layer should be fried vegetables - carrots and onions. Then garlic is poured on them, and potatoes are placed on the very top layer. All this needs to be salted and spices added on top. Put a teaspoon of butter on each potato, and then pour half a glass of water into each pot, but warm it up first. After that, be sure to cover everything with lids and put it in an oven preheated to 180°C for 35-40 minutes. When the pots are cooking, you need to prepare the cheese, which will add piquancy to the dish. Choose any hard variety. Grate it in the required amount. When there are 10 minutes left before the dish is ready, take out the pots, open the lids and sprinkle a little cheese into them. Then put them back in the oven. Lamb in pots must be served hot. Therefore, when the dish is completely ready, take small plates and place them on the table. Then take the pots out one by one. Then you can invite your household to the table. Enjoy your meal!
Irish Recipe
Lamb has an excellent aroma and taste.pots, cooked according to an Irish recipe. So be sure to pay attention to it. To make this dish according to it, prepare the following ingredients:
- lamb pulp - 800 g,
- tomatoes - 4 pcs.,
- potatoes - 700 g,
- carrots - 2 pcs.,
- garlic - 4 cloves,
- vegetable oil - 100 ml,
- white dry wine-200 ml,
- broth (beef or lamb) - 200 ml,
- butter - 100 g,
- salt, red and black to taste,
- onion powder - 1 tsp,
- dried ground parsley - 4 tsp,
- dried ground basil - 2 tsp.
The first thing you need to do is peel the carrots andPeel the potatoes. Next, rinse the peeled vegetables under running water. Then take the tomatoes and cut out the stems. After that, rinse them and cut into half rings 7 mm thick. Now put the carrots on a cutting board. Cut them into rings or bars, the thickness of which should not exceed 1 cm. Then take the potatoes. They need to be chopped into small cubes. As soon as this is done, take the garlic, peel it and chop finely. Now we prepare the lamb tenderloin. First, rinse it under water. Be sure to dry it with paper towels and then put it on a cutting board. Using a knife, chop the meat into small pieces (up to 6 cm in diameter). Next, take a kitchen hammer and beat the lamb a little with it. After that, put the frying pan and fry the meat over medium heat for 5 minutes. Then be sure to turn it off and proceed to the next stage of cooking. Next, you need to preheat the oven to 190°. Then take 4 pots, wash them thoroughly and dry them. Put a tablespoon of butter on the bottom of each. Then take the fried meat and divide it into 4 parts, and then put it into the pots. Now you need to take dried basil, onion powder, dried parsley, salt, ground black and red pepper. Put them all little by little into the pots. After that, you can start distributing the vegetables. First, lay out the potatoes in equal parts, then the carrots, and then the tomato. Sprinkle garlic on top. After doing this, you need to take the broth and warm it up a little, and then add 50 ml to each container. After that, distribute the prepared wine in equal portions. The next step is to make sure that the oven is already warmed up enough, and then, covering the pots, you can put them on to cook. The dish must be baked for an hour. Then you need to take them out and remove the lids, then put them back in the oven and leave to simmer for 10 minutes. Then turn it off and let the finished meat dish sit for 15 minutes. After that, you can take out the pots and serve the Irish lamb to the table. You can decorate it with fresh herbs - parsley and dill. Enjoy!
Bulgarian cooking recipe
Lamb in pots, cooked in Bulgarian style, has an extraordinary taste, which is why so many people love it. To make it, you will need the following ingredients:
- lamb - 700 g,
- potatoes - 6 pcs.,
- onion - 1 pc.,
- carrots - 1 pc.,
- butter - 100 g,
- champignons - 600 g,
- broccoli - 1 head (small),
- pepper red salad - 1 pc.,
- fresh tomato - 3 pcs.,
- water - 800 ml,
- Salt, pepper and laurel leaf to taste.
The first thing you need to do is put the kettle on at 800ml of water over high heat. Be sure to bring it to a boil. Then you need to set it aside and start preparing the food. Take the lamb and rinse it under running water. Be sure to dry it with paper towels after this, and then place the meat on a cutting board. Cut off all the cartilage and films from the lamb, if any, and then chop it into small cubes up to 2.5 cm in size. Transfer the prepared meat to a bowl, sprinkle it with ground pepper and salt, as well as chopped bay leaf. After this, put the frying pan and fry the meat for 5 minutes over medium heat. Now you can start preparing the vegetables. Peel the carrots, potatoes and onions. Cut out the stalk of the pepper and clean it of seeds. Broccoli needs to be disassembled into florets. Then you need to rinse all these ingredients under running water along with the tomatoes. Next, chop the potatoes and tomatoes into small cubes up to 2 cm, carrots into rings up to 5 mm thick, pepper into thin strips. Onions should be finely chopped. As for broccoli, each of its inflorescences should be cut into 3 parts, while the small ones can be left whole. Be sure to put all these ingredients in a deep bowl, and then season them with salt and spices. Be sure to mix them thoroughly, using suitable equipment. The next step is to prepare the mushrooms. First, they are washed under water, and then dried on a paper towel. Next, they need to be put on a cutting board and cut into cubes up to 2.5 cm. After this, the mushrooms should be poured into some container and salted to taste. Then you need to wash the pots and dry them. Then melt the butter over low heat so that it does not burn, and grease each pot with it. After this is done, proceed to distributing the lamb. It should be evenly distributed among the pots and then filled with water from the kettle. Now you need to take some salt and dissolve it in the liquid. This must be done so that the meat is tasty, because during frying it was not seasoned with anything. Then you can move on to distributing the chopped vegetables, including mushrooms. Add them to each pot in equal quantities. The next step is to preheat the oven to 200 °, and then place the pots in it. This dish is cooked for 50-60 minutes. As soon as this time is up, turn off the oven and leave the pots in it for 10 minutes. You can serve this dish directly in them or put it on a plate. As an addition to it, you can offer sliced bread and pickles. Lamb cooked according to this recipe is distinguished by the fact that it has a very rich and pleasant taste that will certainly surprise you. Bon appetit!
Helpful Tips
Having decided to cook lamb using one of theserecipes, you simply can’t do without useful recommendations. They are as follows: Before using clay pots, be sure to dip them in cold water for 10-15 minutes. This must be done to make the dish more juicy. If desired, you can use Parmesan cheese for sprinkling, which should be added 10 minutes before readiness. You can supplement the set of spices for the dish with various spices, they will make it even more delicious. Instead of tomatoes in winter, you can use tomato paste. When using water, it is better to take distilled water, then the taste of the dish will not be more intense. In order for lamb in pots cooked in the oven to be even more delicious, you should put a little sour cream or mayonnaise in it; In the dish, you can replace vegetables with any others at your discretion, for example, instead of carrots you can put pumpkin, and instead of peppers zucchini.
