Name: Lamb with Tarator Sauce, Mashed Potatoes & Tomato & Radish Salad
Prep time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Middle East
Ingredients: 2 spring onions; 1½ tsp ground cumin; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 200 g/7 oz radishes; 1 tbsp olive oil; 250 g/9 oz/heaped 1¾ cups cherry tomatoes; 1 handful of parsley leaves; 1 handful of mint leaves; 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 tsp dried oregano; 1 garlic clove; 55 ml/1¾fl oz/scant ¼ cup olive oil; 2 tsp ground allspice; 8 small lamb chops (about 90 g/3¼ oz each); 55 g/2 oz/heaped ⅓ cup pine nuts; 30 g/1 oz butter; 750 g/1lb 10 oz new potatoes; 1 lemon; 1 slice of white bread

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

Mighty Spice Express Cookbook

By John Gregory-Smith

Published 2013

About

Tarator sauce is a bread sauce with attitude and, served with lamb, makes a classic Middle Eastern combination. It’s packed with lemon juice, garlic, pine nuts, cumin and olive oil and it works beautifully with sweet and juicy lamb chops, gently flavoured with allspice and oregano. The rich flavours of the lamb and sauce benefit from the contrasting fresh and simple tomato and radish salad, which was inspired by countless trips to the Eastern Med.

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