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All Day Lamb Shoulder with Smashed Peas + Labneh

Today we welcome back our resident ‘wine guy’, the excellent Matt Skinner of The Drinks List.  Matt’s  favourite slow-cooked lamb dinner is a WINNER. This dish is one that gives the impression of extreme effort, but it’s dead easy – you just need to start a day ahead, as the lamb spends 11 hours in the oven! Paired with a good wine, zesty smashed peas and homemade quick-labneh, we’ll definitely be serving this one up over summer.

We suggest pairing this month’s recipes with The Drinks List’s Christmas Survival Kit, a collection of 6 wines ready for the festive season, and with free shipping for the next 24 hours!

Written
by
Matt Skinner

All Day Lamb Shoulder with Smashed Peas & Labneh. Recipe by Matt Skinner from The Drinks List.  Surface from The Establishment Studios. Photo – Eve Wilson. Styling – Lucy Feagins. Styling assistant – Natalie Turnbull.

All Day Lamb Shoulder with Smashed Peas & Labneh. Recipe by Matt Skinner from The Drinks List.  Props:  Flat plate by Valerie Restarick, ceramic plate by The Forty Nine Studio, ceramic bowl by Valerie Restarick, Cutipol cutlery from Francalia. Chopping board and surface from The Establishment Studios. Photo – Eve Wilson. Styling – Lucy Feagins. Styling assistant – Natalie Turnbull.

Lamb fresh out of the oven. Recipe by Matt Skinner from The Drinks List. Photo – Eve Wilson. Styling – Lucy Feagins. Styling assistant – Natalie Turnbull.

All Day Lamb Shoulder with Smashed Peas & Labneh. Recipe by Matt Skinner from The Drinks List.  Props:  Flat plate by Valerie Restarick, ceramic plate by The Forty Nine Studio, ceramic bowl by Valerie Restarick, Cutipol cutlery from Francalia. Chopping board and surface from The Establishment Studios. Photo – Eve Wilson. Styling – Lucy Feagins. Styling assistant – Natalie Turnbull.

Writer
Matt Skinner
13th of December 2016

There are few things I enjoy more than lazy weekends spent eating and drinking with good people. With spring lamb still gracing the display cabinets of good butchers right around the country, I thought a favourite ‘all day shoulder of lamb’ would be the perfect recipe to share. Comfortably feeding four people – and six at a stretch – this is a classic lunch or dinner dish where much of the work is done in advance, leaving you more time to spend with those good people!

Tasty Tuesday is generously supported by The Establishment Studios.

Ingredients

For the lamb

2kg Lamb shoulder
2 lemons, zested
4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
3 tbsp za’atar
5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

For the smashed peas

400gms garden peas, shelled
1 bunch mint, leaves washed and picked
1 bunch basil, leaves washed and picked
Handful of grated pecorino cheese
100ml extra virgin olive oil
Juice of a lemon
Sea salt

For the labneh

250gm Greek yoghurt
Sea salt

Method

Pour yourself a glass of Head Red GSM 2015 (which can be found in The Drinks List’s Christmas Survival Kit!).

Combine lemon zest, garlic, za’atar, and 3 tablespoons of olive oil together and massage well into lamb shoulder. Cover marinated shoulder tightly with cling film and refrigerate overnight.

Preheat oven to 90 degrees Celsius.

Remove cling film from shoulder and place in a heavy roasting tray and roast for 11 hours.
To make the labneh, add a pinch of salt to the yogurt and mix well. Transfer mixture to a small bowl lined with a chux cloth. Refrigerate for the entire time the lamb is cooking. At the end of the process, discard any excess liquid that has gathered in the bowl, and set aside.

With one hour to go, baste the lamb shoulder regularly with cooking juices from the tray until the cooking time is complete. Remove tray from oven and cover with foil, and set aside.

Meanwhile, add peas, basil, mint, pecorino, and lemon juice to a food processor. Pulse to combine. Stop the motor and add a few decent slugs of olive oil and a pinch of sea salt. Process to combine, being careful not to blitz the mixture too hard. You want to keep some texture.

Serve the lamb either as whole shoulder, which will come apart easily with a pair of tongs, or as individual portions together with smashed peas, a good dollop of labneh and lemon wedges.

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