Roast rack of lamb with marmalade crumb topping recipe
Peter’s roast lamb rack with marmalade crumb topping, roasted baby vegetables, and watercress and pumpkin seed salad is deceptively simple to make. For a dinner party, you can make the topping a few days beforehand to save time, and you can even top the racks the day before - just remember to bring them to room temperature first.
Ingredients
- 2 7-bone lamb racks, fat trimmed
- 60 g butter
- 2 tbsp marmalade or apricot jam
- 1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
- 1 cup coarse breadcrumbs (or use Japanese panko crumbs for that extra touch)
- 1 small white fleshed onion, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 splash/knob olive oil or butter
- 2 tsp rosemary leaves, roughly chopped
- 0.5 red chilli, thinly sliced (optional)
- 600 g baby vegetables (baby carrots, courgettes, sweetcorn and fennel)
- 4 tbsp pumpkin or sunflower seeds, pinenuts or slivered almonds
- 1 large bunch watercress, washed and drained (optional)
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
Details
- Cuisine: New Zealand
- Recipe Type: Main
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 20 mins
- Cooking Time: 30 mins
- Serves: 4
Step-by-step
- Preheat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Lightly season the lamb racks all over and bring to room temperature on a plate, covered with clingfilm.
- In a small pan, melt the butter and marmalade with a little salt and pepper, then stir in the mustard and take off the heat. Mix in about half of the breadcrumbs - slowly adding enough until you have a good coating. Spoon the topping evenly across the racks, pressing it down over the meat.
- Sauté the onion and garlic in 2 tbsp olive oil or butter until lightly caramelised, then mix in the rosemary and chilli.
- Place the vegetables in a roasting dish and mix in the caramelised onions, season, then put the lamb racks on top.
- Roast in the centre of the oven for 20-30 minutes, depending on the thickness of the meat. If the crumbs are becoming too dark as it cooks, cover loosely with foil. Turn the over off and keep the door ajar to let the lamb rest for 5 - 10 minutes before serving.
- Place the pumpkin seeds in a small fry-pan with a tbsp olive oil and cook over a medium heat, stirring occasionally until they begin to pop a little. Take the pan off the heat and leave to cool.
- To serve, take the racks and carefully cut in half. Drizzle the balsamic vinegar over the veg, mix it in and spoon onto 4 warm plates. Place the lamb on top of the veg. Decorate with watercress and scatter with pumpkin seeds.
Recipe provided by Love Our Lamb.
You can watch Peter make his lamb dish here.
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