Slow cooker lamb stew with potatoes

Portion size: Serves 8 (or 2 meals for 4)
Hands-on time 10 min
Difficulty: easy

Dairy-free

Gluten-free

Jen Bedloe

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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.

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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

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Method

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.
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

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

Quick wins & tips

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.

Serving ideas:
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.

Make easy mezze. Chop any leftover meat, reheat and serve with houmous and flatbreads as a mezze. Drizzle the stew with pomegranate or date molasses and scatter with more fresh parsley.

With a generous 4.8-litre pot capacity, this slow cooker is ideal for family meals, batch cooking and entertaining guests. The smart keep warm function ensures meals stay at optimal serving temperature without overcooking or compromising taste.