Name: Stewed Chestnuts with Lamb (Kestaneli Yahni)
Yield: To Serve 6
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 25 g/1 oz caster or granulated sugar; ½ tsp salt small piece cinnamon; 300 g/1 oz chestnuts; 100 g/3½ oz onions, chopped; 600 g/1 ¼ lb single or double loin lamb chops

Preparation info

To Serve
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook

By Nevin Halici

Published 1989

About

This unusual recipe comes from Istanbul.

Ingredients

600 g/1 ¼ lb single or double loin lamb chops
300 g/1

Method

Prepare the meat as for Wedding Stew, reserving the fat.

Slit the skin of each chestnut, and grill to loosen the skin. Shell the nuts and fry for 2 minutes in the fat used to fry the meat, stirring frequently.

Add the chestnuts to the meat, reduce the heat to very low and cook for 10 minutes. Add the sugar and cook for a further 10 minutes