Levi’s Homecoming Lamb

Name: Levi’s Homecoming Lamb
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: 6 allspice berries; 1 tbsp olive oil; juice of 2 limes; 125 ml (4 fl oz) Jamaican stout, or Irish stout mixed with 1½ tbsp soft dark brown sugar; leaves from 3 sprigs of thyme; ½ hot red chilli (ideally Scotch bonnet), deseeded and finely chopped; salt and pepper; mint sprigs, to garnish; 4 equal-sized pieces of lamb rump (about 500 g/1 lb 2 oz. in all); 3 tbsp finely chopped mint leaves; 2 spring onions, green part only, chopped; 3 tbsp sunflower or groundnut oil; Rice and Peas, to serve

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Caribbean Food Made Easy

By Levi Roots

Published 2009

About

Here is the dish that I’d cook for my grandmother if she were to walk through the door, I’d pour some of the stout in the dish and give the rest of the bottle to her to drink as it was a favourite of hers. This is an interesting combination of flavours – sweet, hot and bitter. Caribbean stout is sweeter than Irish, so if you’re using the Irish black stuff, you’ll need to add sugar.