Lamb in spicy coconut cream
This colourful lamb dish adds an exotic flavour to your dinner table. The fragrance of cumin and star anise are combined with the gentle sweetness of coconut cream which makes it delicious. If you like it hotter, you can add more cayenne pepper.
Ingredients
- 6-8 Lamb leg steaks 800g-1kg cut into 2-3
For the lamb
- 1 tsp Turmeric
- 2 tsp Curry powder
- 1 tsp salt
- ¼ tsp ground pepper
- flour
- cooking Oil
For the sauce
- ½ onion finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 3 cm cube Fresh ginger finely chopped
- 1 tbsp cooking Oil
- 1 400ml can coconut cream
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon or 1 cinnamon stick
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- ½ tsp star anise
- 1 red capsicum diced
For the yellow butter rice
- 3 cups long grain white rice
- 1 tbsp butter
- ½ tsp turmeric
- 3 ½ cups water
- 2 tbsp raisins soaked in warm water for 5 minutes and drained
- Fresh Mint leaves to garnish
Instructions
- Cut each Lamb steak into 2-3 portions.
- Mix turmeric, curry, salt and pepper in a small bowl and rub the spice mixture into the lamb pieces.
- Dust with plain flour.
- Heat cooking oil in a frying pan and sauté lamb pieces until the surface of the lamb becomes brown.
- Heat oil in a sauce pan. Fry ginger and garlic. When the aroma comes out, add onion and continue cooking until the onion becomes transparent.
- Add lamb pieces, coconut cream, spices and bring to boil. Turn the heat down to low and simmer 40-50 minutes. Add diced capsicum about 10 minutes before finish cooking.
- While the lamb is cooking, make butter rice. Rinse rice in cold water and drain. Melt butter in a pot over a medium heat and add uncooked rice and turmeric. Mix thoroughly so the rice is covered by butter and coloured evenly. Add cold water, cover the pan and bring to boil. Turn the heat to low and let it cook for 15 minutes until all the liquid is absorbed in the rice.
- Mix raisins into the cooked rice.
- Serve Lamb and sauce with rice. Garnish with fresh mint leaves.
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