Lamb Raan with Tomato Rice Recipe

Lamb Raan with Tomato Rice

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 20-30 mins

Alledgedly invented for world famous dab hand in the kitchen, Alexander the Great, lamb raan is a barbecued, spiced leg of lamb. Conquer this, you'll conquer anything.

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891 kcal
(per portion)

Ingredients you'll need

1 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp coriander seeds
4 cardamom pods
A pot of yogurt
2 lamb leg steaks
1 onion
A thumb of ginger
1 garlic clove
A punnet of tomatoes
A bag of white basmati rice
2 large handfuls of baby leaf spinach

From your kitchen

1½ tbsp olive oil
Sea salt
Freshly ground pepper
250ml hot water

You'll need

Frying pan
Pestle and mortar or spice grinder (optional)
Bowl
Roasting tin
Pan with a lid
Measuring jug

Step by step this way

1.
Heat the oven to 230°C/Fan 210°C/Gas 8. Measure out 1 tsp of the cumin seeds and 2 tsp of the coriander seeds. Put them in a dry frying pan with 4 cardamom pods. Toast over a medium heat for 1-2 mins. Keep shaking the pan so they don't burn.
2.
Tip the spices into a pestle and mortar or spice grinder and grind (or use the end of a rolling pin to bash them). Throw away the papery green skins from the cardamom pods. Stir in half the yogurt with a pinch of salt.
3.
Put the lamb leg steaks and spiced yogurt into a bowl. Mix. Leave for 5 mins. Drizzle 1 tbsp oil into a roasting tin. Put the lamb in the tin. Roast for 20-30 mins till cooked to your liking.
4.
Peel and finely chop the onion. Peel and grate the ginger and garlic. Roughly chop the tomatoes.
5.
Warm ½ tbsp oil in a pan. Add the onion. Season. Stir and fry for 5 mins till it looks glossy. Add the tomatoes, garlic and ginger. Stir and fry for 1 min. Fill the kettle and boil it.
6.
Add the rice to the onions and tomatoes. Pour in 250ml hot water. Cover. Simmer over a medium heat for 6 mins till the water has been absorbed. Take the rice off the heat. Leave it to steam with the lid on for 4 more mins to finish cooking the rice.
7.
Add the spinach to the rice. Fork it through so the spinach just wilts. Serve the rice with the lamb leg steaks and the rest of the yogurt.

Tip
Let’s see how it pans out
You can also cook the lamb leg steaks in a frying or grill pan rather than in the oven. Fry them for 4 mins each side for pink meat, 5-7 mins each side for medium to well done.

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