30 mins
Super easy
serves 4
About the recipe
Griddling these lamb chops in spices really brings out that bold, sweet meaty flavour.
Ingredients
8 quality lean lamb cutlets
1 teaspoon dried mint
1 teaspoon mild smoked paprika
½ a lemon
extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon fennel seeds
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
200g blanched almonds
200g quality houmous
2 tablespoons harissa paste
COLESLAW
2 carrots
½ a celeriac
¼ of a small red cabbage
½ an onion
1 bunch of fresh coriander
6 tablespoons natural yoghurt
1 lime
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4.
- Lay the lamb cutlets on a plate and sprinkle them with sea salt, black pepper, the mint and paprika.
- Finely grate over the lemon zest and squeeze over the juice, then drizzle with oil and massage the flavours into the chops. Leave to marinate for 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, crush the fennel and cumin seeds in a pestle and mortar, then tip onto a baking tray with the almonds. Drizzle with a little oil, season and toss to coat.
- Toast in the preheated oven until lightly golden, then remove and allow to cool.
- For the coleslaw, peel and shred the carrots and celeriac on a mandolin (use the guard!). Remove the core from the cabbage and peel the onion, then slice as finely as you can with a sharp knife. Pick and finely chop the coriander leaves and stalks.
- Place all the veg in a bowl with the yoghurt and coriander stalks, then finely grate in the lime zest and squeeze in the juice. Mix well and season with salt and pepper.
- Scoop the houmous into a nice bowl, spoon the harissa and a lug of oil on top and swirl them half in with a spoon to get a rippled effect.
- Put the cooled spiced nuts into a sandwich bag and smash them up with the bottom of a pan or a rolling pin.
- Preheat a griddle pan to high, then cook the lamb for 3 minutes on each side, or until cooked to medium.
- Serve the chops in a pile on one end of a chopping board and arrange the bowl of houmous, coleslaw and spicy nuts nicely around them, then sprinkle with the coriander leaves. Dip a chop in the houmous, then in the nuts and eat with the coleslaw – delicious!
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