Linda Martins Lamb Stew In A Pumpkin Recipes

PUMPKIN STEW WITH LAMB

Steps:

• Sprinkle meat with salt and pepper and set aside.
• Heat oil in a heavy casserole and add half the meat, stirring so pieces brown evenly, 3 to 4 minutes over high heat.
• Scoop out meat and add remaining cubes to the fat still in the casserole. Cook, stirring, about 3 minutes, or until pieces are well browned. Scoop out second batch and add to the first.
• Put onions in the casserole and add garlic. Cook, stirring, about 1 minute, and return meat pieces to the casserole. Sprinkle flour over all and stir to coat pieces evenly.
• Add wine, water, tomato paste, bay leaf, thyme and chili pepper and cover closely. Bring to boil and simmer about 40 minutes. Add pumpkin. Continue cooking about 20 minutes longer. Stir in rosemary and corn and bring to boil. Remove bay leaf and serve.

LAMB STEW WITH SPRING VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Heat the canola oil in a medium (10- to 11-inch) ovenproof pot or Dutch oven, such as Le Creuset, over medium heat. Add the bacon and cook for 5 minutes, until browned. Transfer the bacon to a large plate, leaving the fat in the pan. Dry the lamb with paper towels and toss it in a bowl first with 1 tablespoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper, and then with the 1/4 cup of flour. Raise the heat to medium high and cook half the lamb in the bacon fat for 5 minutes, turning occasionally, until browned. Add the lamb to the plate with the bacon and brown the second batch, also transferring it to the plate. Add the garlic to the pot and cook for one minute.
• Pour the lamb and bacon, along with any juices that collect, back into the pot. Add the beef stock, wine, tomatoes (including the juice), thyme, rosemary, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper and bring to a boil, scraping up the brown bits in the pot. Simmer for 5 minutes, cover, and place in the oven for 30 minutes. Add the carrots, potatoes, onions, and turnips, cover, and return to the oven for 1 hour, until all the vegetables are tender.
• Mash the 2 tablespoons of flour with the butter in a small bowl. Stir the mixture into the stew, and simmer on top of the stove for 3 minutes. Off the heat, stir in the peas and parsley, season to taste, and serve hot in large shallow bowls.

PUMPKIN LAMB STEW

Steps:

• Roast, peel, and seed Poblano Chiles. Dice and set aside.
• Heat a large saucepan and add Onion, Garlic, Chiles, and Lamb. Sauté for 4-5 minutes, until onions are caramelized. Add Ginger, Tomatoes, Coconut Milk and Lamb Stock. Bring mixture to a boil and add spices and Kidney Beans.
• Cut the top off the pumpkin and scoop out the seeds and fibrous strands. Place the shell in a shallow roasting pan and fill with soup mixture. Bake in a 350° oven for about 1 hour or until the pumpkin flesh is soft.
• Carefully remove pumpkin from pan and place into a large casserole dish. Ladle stew into bowls, making sure to scrape the sides of the pumpkin and get pieces of the flesh with each spoonful.
• Serve with hot rice or cous cous.
• NOTE: Garam Masala is an Indian spice found in specialty food stores or it can be made by grinding together the following spices -.
• 5 teaspoons Coriander Seeds 1 Tbl Cumin Seeds 1 Tbl Black Peppercorns.
• 1 teaspoons Whole Cloves 1 teaspoons Cinnamon 1 teaspoons Green Cardamom Pods.

IRISH STEW

Steps:

• Pat lamb dry and season well with salt and pepper. Put oil in a heavy-bottomed soup pot over medium-high heat. Brown meat on all sides, working in batches.
• Set meat aside and add onions and carrots to pot. Season with salt and pepper. Cook vegetables, stirring, until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Return meat to pot, add broth and bring to a simmer. Put in thyme sprig and arrange potatoes on top (it's fine if potatoes are not completely submerged). Season potatoes, cover pot and transfer to oven.
• Bake for about 1 hour, until lamb is quite tender when probed with a skewer or paring knife. Remove fat from top of broth. Ladle stew into shallow bowls and serve.

MOROCCAN-STYLE PUMPKIN (WITH LENTILS)

Steps:

• In a heavy pot with a lid, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil on medium-high heat. When hot, add the lamb; sprinkle with salt and pepper and cook until browned on all sides, 5 to 8 minutes total, stirring as needed. Remove the pieces of lamb to a plate and reduce the heat to medium.
• If the pan is dry, add more oil. Add onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, 5 minutes. Add pumpkin, garlic, turmeric, cinnamon and cumin; cook until pumpkin begins to soften, about 10 minutes.
• Add bay leaves, wine, stock and tomatoes, and return lamb to the pan. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and cook for at least 45 minutes on medium-low, partly covered. Stir occasionally; add more stock if needed.
• Add lentils, and bring the mixture back to a boil. Adjust heat a simmer. Continue to cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the lentils are tender and the liquid is thick, about 30 minutes. (If at any point it threatens to become too thick, add a bit of stock or water.) Taste, and adjust the seasoning. Remove the bay leaves, and garnish with cilantro before serving.

LINDA MARTIN'S LAMB STEW IN A PUMPKIN

Steps:

• Brown lamb in 1 tbsp salad oil over medium high heat. Remove from pan as it browns. Add another tbsp oil and two chopped onions and 2 cloves garlic. Saute until soft and return meat and juices to pan. Add cinnamon (about 2 inches) cloves, ginger and cayenne along with chicken broth. Cover and simmer until meat is tender (check, but somewhere between 1/2 to 1 hour). Add 2 zucchini cut into 1/2 inch thick slices and 6 carrots cut in half lengthwise and into 1 inch pieces. Cover and simmer 5 minutes. Remove meat and vegetables and spoon into hot pumpkin. Discard cinnamon stick. Stir together 2 tbsp flour and water and stir into cooking liquid. Cook, stirring until mixture boils and thickens. Pour over meat and vegetables in pumpkin. Set lid in place and bake in roasting pan about 30 minutes or until pumpkin is tender when pierced. Pumpkin: Cut top off pumpkin and scrape out seeds and fiber. There should be a shell of approx. one inch depth. Put the whole pumpkin in a shallow roasting pan. Add about 1/2 inch water and bake in a 350 oven until almost tender (approx. 1 hour) It's wise to cover the stem of the pumpkin with foil to protect it while baking.