Slow cooker lamb stew with potatoes

Slow cooker lamb stew with potatoes

Dinner doesn’t get any simpler than this: for 10 minutes effort you get a meltingly tender slow cooker lamb stew in a lightly-spiced sauce. This recipe is great for batch cooking.

Slow cooker lamb stew with potatoes

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  • Serves icon Serves 8 (or 2 meals for 4)
  • Time icon Hands-on time 10 min

Dinner doesn’t get any simpler than this: for 10 minutes effort you get a meltingly tender slow cooker lamb stew in a lightly-spiced sauce. This recipe is great for batch cooking.

Let the slow cooker do the hard work with our collection of delicious slow cooker recipes.

Nutrition: per serving

Calories
330kcals
Fat
12.2g (5.2g saturated)
Protein
33g
Carbohydrates
20.1g (6g sugars)
Fibre
3.4g
Salt
0.3g

Ingredients

  • 1.2 kg lamb shoulder, diced
  • 2 red onions, sliced
  • 2 celery sticks, chopped
  • 4 garlic cloves, peeled
  • 3 tbsp tomato purée
  • 4 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 400g tin chopped tomatoes
  • 750g small potatoes such as charlotte, halved if large
  • Chopped flatleaf parsley, dill, lemon zest to serve

You’ll also need…

  • Slow cooker
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Method

  1. Put the lamb in a slow cooker with the remaining ingredients, 100ml water and salt and black pepper, then cook on low for 6 hours or on high for 4 hours. If you don’t have a slow cooker, you can get the same results using a lidded casserole. Wet a disc of compostable baking paper the same size as the casserole. Scrunch it up, then place it onto the stew. Put the lid on and cook at 130ºC fan/gas 2 for 4 hours.
  2. Serve with the herbs, bread or veg. Or, to batch cook ahead, cool the stew, then portion in labelled airtight containers and freeze for up to 6 months. Defrost overnight in the fridge, then reheat in a medium oven or in a pan until piping hot throughout.

Nutrition

Nutrition: per serving
Calories
330kcals
Fat
12.2g (5.2g saturated)
Protein
33g
Carbohydrates
20.1g (6g sugars)
Fibre
3.4g
Salt
0.3g

delicious. tips

  1. Easy swaps: Turn the stew into a tagine. When you cook the lamb, swap the spices for a shop-bought tagine paste and swap the potatoes for root vegetables and dried apricots. Serve with couscous.

    Use the stew as the filling in a puffed lamb pie. Thicken the sauce by simmering with 1-2 tsp cornflour mixed with water, then pour into a pie dish, top with ready-rolled puff pastry and bake at 180ºC fan/gas 6 for 25-30 minutes.

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Recipe By:

Jen Bedloe
Former head of food delicious.

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