La Falette

Name: La Falette (Stuffed breast of lamb)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 500 g (1 lb) potatoes; 125 g (4 oz) fresh fatty pork; 250 g (8 oz) spinach; 125 g (4 oz) Toulouse sausagemeat; salt, pepper; 1 tablespoon mixed herbs; 575 ml (1 pt) stock; 2 cloves garlic; 1 small onion; 125 g (4 oz) lamb’s liver; 250 ml (8 fl oz) dry white wine; 2 eggs; a few green cabbage leaves; bouquet garni; 125 g (4 oz) fresh breadcrumbs; 1 large onion, chopped; 2 tablespoons pork fat; 1 breast of lamb, boned and trimmed; 2 carrots, chopped; 125 g (4 oz) jambon de campagne

Stuffed breast of lamb

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Goose Fat & Garlic

By Jeanne Strang

Published 1991

About

As with all other animals, no part of the sheep is thrown away. The stomach with its little tripe is made into savoury packets called tripoux and served with a spicy tomato sauce. Breast of lamb too is a cheaper cut which they stuff; in the Cévennes the peasants evolved a recipe which makes the most of a fatty joint.

Ingredients

1 breast of lamb, boned and trimmed
2 tablespoons pork fat
2 carrots, chopped

Europe
France
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Prepare the stuffing by first blanching, then draining and chopping the spinach, and chopping the other ingredients finely. Mix them all together and bind with the beaten eggs. You will probably have too much but the surplus is for making tiny stuffed ‘cabbages’ to serve as a garnish.

Open up the pocket at the flap end of the breast of lamb and fill it with the mixture, then sew up the