Here is my Australia Day roast lamb dinner

Here is my Australia Day roast lamb dinner. You may recall on Sunday I cooked a standing rib roast and in that post embedded a YouTube video outlining the marketing campaign for Australia Day roast lamb.

Before we get to dinner though let’s look at how I spent some of my Australia Day.

For breakfast I enjoyed a green and gold omelet with Coon cheese, a good Australian cheese.

Photograph of Australia Day green and gold breakfast omelet
Australia Day green and gold breakfast omelet

I then went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra.

What is this flower?
What is this flower?
What is this fruit on the same shrub as the purple flower?
What is this fruit on the same shrub as the purple flower?
What better thing to do on Australia Day. Family fishing on Lake Ginninderra.
What better thing to do on Australia Day. Family fishing on Lake Ginninderra.
Picnic breakfast on Australia Day
Picnic breakfast on Australia Day
Free wi-fi around Lake Ginninderra
Free wi-fi around Lake Ginninderra

Lake Ginninderra Lake Ginninderra

So I spent a good portion of today cleaning the apartment for a rental inspection tomorrow and also binge watching World War II in colour on Netflix. Nothing like learning a little modern history while my Australia Day roast lamb was cooking. I’m so grateful to the warfighters and civilians who fought and died for our freedom and our way of life.

So this Australia Day roast lamb was all about a low slow oven cook. I used the leftover beef stock and quinoa with green peppercorns from my roast beef to enrich the flavour of my roast lamb.

Here is my Australia Day roast lamb dinner
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://garylum.me” target=”_blank”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Boneless lamb shoulder
  • Onion
  • Lemon
  • Apple
  • Quinoa
  • Green peppercorns
  • Beef stock
  • Carrots
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Kale coleslaw
  • Sweet corn
  • Rosemary
  • Coon cheese shredded
  • Crushed mixed nuts
Instructions
  1. Prepare a baking tray with the beef stock, quinoa, green peppercorns, carrots, onion, apple and rosemary.
  2. Lay the lamb on top
  3. Cover with aluminium foil
  4. Cook at 120 °C for 3 hours
  5. After 2 hours add a cob of sweet corn wrapped in aluminium foil
  6. At 3 hours remove everything from the oven and allow everything to rest for 20 minutes
  7. Ladle out some quinoa, green peppercorns and rosemary and with a little fatty stock add it to the kale coleslaw and then add some crushed mixed nuts and Coon cheese
  8. Slice the lamb and plate up
  9. Vacuum pack the remaining lamb
  10. Shoot a photograph
  11. Eat the meal and consider what Australia Day means to me
  12. Wash the dishes
  13. Write the recipe
  14. Blog (verb)

 

Photograph of My lump of lamb for my Australia Day roast lamb
My lump of lamb for my Australia Day roast lamb
Photograph of Preparing my baking tray for my Australia Day roast lamb
Preparing my baking tray for the lump of lamb
Photograph of my Australia Day roast lamb Ready for the oven
Ready for the oven
Photograph of my Australia Day roast lamb straight out of the oven
Straight out of the oven
Australia Day roast lamb. Beef stock, Carrot, Coleslaw, Corn, Green peppercorns, Kale, Nuts, Onion, and Quinoa.
Australia Day roast lamb. Beef stock, Carrot, Coleslaw, Corn, Green peppercorns, Kale, Nuts, Onion, and Quinoa.
Australia Day roast lamb. Beef stock, Carrot, Coleslaw, Corn, Green peppercorns, Kale, Nuts, Onion, and Quinoa.
Australia Day roast lamb. Beef stock, Carrot, Coleslaw, Corn, Green peppercorns, Kale, Nuts, Onion, and Quinoa.

The rest of the meat has been divided in half and vacuum packed for future meals.

Australia Day ice cream with Milo
Australia Day ice cream with Milo

How did you cook your Australia Day roast lamb?

7 Responses

  1. The lake really looks so relaxing. It’s the perfect place to be in if you want some quiet time. Anyway, your omelette looks absolutely dashing and your roast lamb is something I would really like for dinner. 🙂

  2. Lake Ginninderra is the perfect place to unwind. How far do you live from this lake?

    I bought a selection of spice mix (vacuum packed) for soup, salads and meat from the spice market in Istanbul yesterday. Yes, I tasted them before I bought them. We don’t have these where I am. I have forgotten the curry powder. I would have made my own curry powder in London but I don’t want to invest in any kitchen appliances for now.

    Istanbul is expansive but it’s worth looking for local eateries, away from the tourists spots in some back streets. Obviously, one will not get Ottoman cuisine or some fancy fusion take-on but it’s good food and cheaper on the purse, too. Some eateries will push the boat out for you so as to encourage you to come back.

Hi there, leave a comment if you want.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.