Slow roasted mutton (or lamb) with red currant and chili glaze.

Writing this up now, will upload the photos later so if you're interested stay tuned for that i guess :D

Wanted to try this for xmas, so experimented with it last night and it came out amazing.

Ingredients

1 leg of mutton or lamb, bone out.
1 jar of red currant jam (or similar, slightly tart jam)
2tbsp molasis
1 red chilli, finely chopped
1 1/2 tsp of balsamic vinegar
Salt and pepper
Fresh Rosemary
Garlic

Slice up some cloves of garlic really thin and cut pieces of the rosemary into roughly the same size as the garlic, on the fat side, stud the meat with both the garlic and rosemary and season liberally with salt and pepper.

Sear in a hot pan (or on a grill) and brown it really nicely, then pop in your oven at 160 for 2 hours or on your grill, indirect with a few cherry wood chunks for the same amount of time.

Mix the jam, molasis, vinegar and chili in a bowl and after that 2 hours, spread it all over the meat and let it cook another 15-20 minutes or until the glaze has well and truly caramelized.

Let it rest and you're good to go :D

Came out great in a test batch, hopefully you give it a go.

Definitely going to try this. So the cherry wood part smokes it?

Yep, that's the idea. It's a very subtle smoke that doesn't impart much flavour but it compliments the sweetness.

Angus explain "stud the meat" for me.

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Originally Posted by Rushy

Angus explain "stud the meat" for me.

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Make small incisions into the meat about 1/2 an inch deep and put garlic and rosemary in these incisions.

I tried this again a little while ago, i found that sambal (thai ground chili paste) works far better than a fresh chili.

works great on pork too mate except I use a thick apricot jam to glaze it and add sweet chilli sauce to the top. mint as

I think we need to ban Angus from posting during work hours
Apart from a banana and a muffin for breakfast, I had a cronut and coffee at 10.15am

Slow roasted mutton (or lamb) with red currant and chili glaze sounds the shiz. Keep it up Angus :cool:

Jesus! MKR! !!
Nice, thanks mate will try soon!

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Originally Posted by sako75

I think we need to ban Angus from posting during work hours
Apart from a banana and a muffin for breakfast, I had a cronut and coffee at 10.15am

Slow roasted mutton (or lamb) with red currant and chili glaze sounds the shiz. Keep it up Angus :cool:

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A cronut!!!!!! You lucky bastard, I'm yet to find one in chch but am dead keen to try one lol.

I have a recipe for them if you want it

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Originally Posted by Angus_A

I have a recipe for them if you want it

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Post it up Angus. We need to harden our arteries as some of us are far to fit for our ages. Take Maca for example, he is drawing the pension now and the way he is going he will be a burden on the tax payer for at least another 65 years.

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Legend Angus gonna attempt them this weekend I think

This is a fantastic recipe. The only way to good a good mutton, I use a variation of this recipe, and experimented with your cranberry sauce tonight on a lamb that I grew last year. The result were wicked!

Tried this last week on a leg of pork. Fantastic, another in the oven right now.