Roast Illabo Lamb with Tomato, Olives and Aïoli

Name: Roast Illabo Lamb with Tomato, Olives and Aïoli
Yield: Serves six as a main course
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 2 x 1 kg illabo or other milk-fed lamb legs; 125 ml olive oil; 1 tablespoon coriander seeds, roasted and ground; 1 teaspoon cummin, roasted and ground; 125 ml extra-virgin olive oil; sea salt and freshly ground pepper; 1 small onion, peeled and cut into 0.5 cm dice; 4 tablespoons fish sauce; 3 cloves garlic; 6 tablespoons red-wine vinegar; 2 large knobs ginger, peeled and chopped; lemon juice; 1 Spanish onion, peeled and finely diced; 10 cloves garlic, crushed; 3 cloves garlic, crushed; 1 tablespoon fennel seeds, roasted and ground; 1 teaspoon sea salt; 15 flat-leaf parsley leaves; 1 kg pink-eye potatoes, boiled in their skins in salted water for 20 minutes, peeled and quartered; olive oil; 100 ml extra-virgin olive oil; 2 red capsicums, seeded and cut into 0.5 cm dice; freshly ground pepper; 1 large eggplant; 3 egg yolks; 15 vine-ripened tomatoes, cored; 10 basil leaves; 400 ml olive oil; 6 tablespoons palm sugar; 3 anchovies, minced

Preparation info

Serves
six
as a main course

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Rockpool

By Neil Perry

Published 1998

About

The availability of illabo lamb on the Australian market is due to Tony Lehmann’s efforts. He is one of the few Australian producers who understands what the market wants, and delivers, in no uncertain terms, a quality product that is markedly better than the bland, generic produce grown for the large corporations. It is because of suppliers like Tony that the quality and variety of fine produce we have available in Australia is main

Ingredients

Oceania
Australia
Main course
Gluten-free

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