I did it! I made this one of Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals
Moroccan Lamb Chops, Herby Couscous & Stuffed Peppers
Serves 4
Ingredients:
Lamb
2 racks of lamb (8 chops per rack)
Nutmeg
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp sweet paprika
1 tsp dried thyme
1 lemon
Couscous
200g couscous
1 fresh red chilli
Parsley or mint
1 lemon
Garnishes
1 pack flatbreads (whichever you like)
250g plain yoghurt
1 heaped tsp harissa paste
200g humus
½ a lemon
Stuffed Peppers
8 small whole jarred red peppers
60g melting cheese (of your choice)
Method:
Lamb
Put lamb on greaseproof paper over a board and cut each rack in half. Score the surface area in a crisscross fashion. Dust or grate over a little nutmeg, the cumin, paprika and thyme. Massage flavours into the meat.
Place in a hot pan with olive oil. Turn and colour the meat for about 5 minutes.
Transfer to a hot roasting tray, bones facing up and put on top shelf of the oven at 220°C/425°F.
Cook 14 minutes for medium meat. Halfway through, turn the racks.
Couscous
Tip couscous into a large bowl with a drizzle of olive oil and add enough boiling water from the kettle to cover by 1cm. Season with a pinch of salt. Cover with a plate.
De-seed and chop the red chilli. Finely chop most of the mint and parsley (reserving some for garnishing).
After a few minutes, take the plate off and add chopped parsley, chilli, a few lugs of olive oil, salt and pepper. Squeeze in the juice of 1 lemon. Fluff with a fork.
Stuffed Peppers
Place a little piece of cheese in each pepper.
Drizzle olive oil into a pan and add peppers. Cook 1-2 minutes only.
Garnishes
Put yoghurt into a bowl and swirl in the harissa. Drizzle over some olive oil and a few reserved parsley leaves.
Spoon the humus into another bowl. Make a well in the middle and add extra olive oil, salt, pepper, a pinch of paprika and the juice from ½ a lemon.
Flatbreads
Lay on a board, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt, dried thyme or oregano. Scrunch up and wet a piece of greaseproof paper under the tap and flatten out. Stack up the breads and wrap in the paper.
Put onto the lowest shelf of the oven below the lamb.
Congrats on cracking the 30 minute barrier! Truth be told, cooking times on so many recipes seem to be way off to me. How many times have you seen a recipe that says you can caramelize onions in 5 – 8 minutes? In which universe is this true?! Even if you cheat and use sugar, it still takes a good 15 minutes, and without sugar at least twice that long (but with far superior flavor). Anyway really good post – thanks.
I’m trying another tonight so let’s see how that goes. You are right that the timing on recipes can be way off. The Moroccan prawns I made the other day took me 30 minutes and the recipe had 49 minutes – not sure where they got that from since the only cooking was 2-3 minutes for the prawns.
Suzanne
I totally agree with kitchenriffs. Most 30 min. recipes are for people who learned the recipe and organized themselves accordingly prior cooking. I love lamb chops. They look fantastic and delicious.
That’s what I think too. If I didn’t have to keep returning to the recipe to see what to do next, I would shave quite some time off it. The lamb chops were perfect. The 14 minutes cooking time with resting for 5 minutes created pale pink centres that were melt in your mouth tender.
Suzanne
I love this lamb – it looks gorgeous! and yummy
The whole meal was delicious with the lamb the star.
Suzanne
Sugar, lady! Jamie has everything precut by others, every utensil at reach, every used dish whisked away – and I would not [sorry, Jamie/Coy!] like to put the clock on when that, admittedly fun, cooking is being done!!! The show is great, the results more than repeatable . . . but let us not become neurotic if we can’t copy without staff
! And if Jamie would read this, he would chortle with laughter!!!
Well, then I will just have to get some staff. How fantastic to have all dirty dishes whisked away. I would love that. I do have a husband and son – we’ll see what can be arranged.
Suzanne
i love Jamie’s meals
So do I, Inka. Thanks for visiting.
Suzanne
Thanks for posting this recipe, I can now try it tonight. Thank you.
You will love it, John. It was so good.
I dont care if it doesnt take 30 minutes – they are great recipes that are easy to do and so delicious!
That’s exactly right. He is a great chef and I love his recipes.
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