How To Make Saucy Skillet Lamb
With hints of warm and earthy spices, this skillet lamb promises juicy lamb shanks simmered in thick homemade chile sauce for a harmony of flavors.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Chile Paste:
- 1tspcumin seeds
- 6dried red chile peppers,preferably Kashmiri
- ¼cupapple cider vinegar
- 1clovegarlic,coarsely chopped, or more to taste
For Lamb:
- 3tbspvegetable oil
- 2onions,finely chopped
- 2tspginger garlic paste
- 5tbsptomato paste
- 1tspground red pepper,(cayenne) or to taste
- ¼tspground turmeric
- ¼tspground cinnamon
- ¼tspground cloves
- 2lbslamb shanks,cut into 1½-inch pieces
- ½tspsalt
- 3cupswater
- 1tbspfresh cilantro,chopped
Instructions
Chile Paste:
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Place the cumin seeds into a dry skillet over medium heat, and toast them, stirring constantly, for about 1 minute until they give off a roasted fragrance and turn a darker brown.
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Scrape the seeds into a bowl, and allow them to cool. When cool, grind them with a mortar and pestle or a clean spice grinder. Set the ground seed aside.
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Remove stems of chiles if necessary, and soak pods in the apple cider vinegar in a bowl for at least 1 hour until soft.
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Place the softened chiles with vinegar, cumin, and garlic into a blender or food processor, and pulse for 30 seconds to 1 minute or as needed until ground into a paste.
Lamb:
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Heat the vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat, and cook and stir the onions for about 10 minutes until lightly browned. Stir in ginger garlic paste and about 1 teaspoon of the chile paste mixture or as desired.
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Reduce heat to medium-low, and fry the onions with the pastes for 5 minutes to blend flavors. Stir in tomato paste, ground red pepper, turmeric, cinnamon, and cloves, and bring to a simmer. Cook to blend flavors for about 20 minutes.
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Mix in the lamb shank pieces, and stir in salt to taste; simmer for 20 minutes, and stir in the water.
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Bring the lamb and sauce to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer, and simmer for 45 more minutes until the lamb is very tender and the sauce has thickened.
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Sprinkle with chopped cilantro to serve. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 418.02kcal
- Fat: 27.79g
- Saturated Fat: 10.18g
- Trans Fat: 0.05g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 13.51g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.21g
- Carbohydrates: 11.36g
- Fiber: 2.13g
- Sugar: 5.87g
- Protein: 30.17g
- Cholesterol: 99.79mg
- Sodium: 424.69mg
- Calcium: 46.51mg
- Potassium: 821.27mg
- Iron: 3.56mg
- Vitamin A: 33.35µg
- Vitamin C: 71.85mg
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