LOVELY SLOW COOKED PEPPER CUMIN GARLIC LAMB

The best recipes are often those you can just slap together and leave in the oven for the amount of time it takes you to watch a Lord Of The Rings or play a few games of Fortnite. This is one of those. Quickly mash up some good shit, slap it all over the lamb and stick it into the oven. 4 Hours later you have a main component for whatever direction you wish to take the dish.

10 Mins Prep 4 Hours Cooking

Ingredients

(To Serve 3-4)

800g Lamb Shoulder Joint
2 Tablespoons Black Peppercorns
Tablespoon Cumin Seeds
Half Tablespoon Chilli Flakes
A Cinnamon Stick
1 Teaspoon MSG
1 Teaspoon Salt
6 Cloves of Garlic
Tablespoon of Olive Oil

Ingredients

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 140ºC. In a pan over a medium heat toast your peppercorns, cumin seeds, chilli flakes and cinnamon. After a couple of minutes blitz these to a fine powder with some salt in a spice grinder or use a pestle and mortar to smash them all up.
Peel 6 cloves of garlic and mash these in with your spice mix. Add your MSG and stir this all together with a drizzle of olive oil. It will become like a paste.
Get your joint of lamb into an oven proof dish and unroll it. Score the fatty side. Use your hands to smear all the flavoursome paste into the cracks, and all over the meat. Cover this very tightly with tin foil and roast in the oven for 4 hours minimum.
You can serve this with whatever you want. I used ramen noodles but it would be great with rice and veg or even in a burrito or on tacos!