Lamb fritters with minted broccoli, peas and leeks
It's the last few days before payday so John Torode is in the kitchen with a recipe that reinvents Sunday lunch leftovers for a tasty Monday night meal.
It's also a recipe that reminds him of growing up, because its other name is My Dad's roast lamb fritters.
Recipe taken from My Kind of Food – Recipes I Love to Cook at Home by John Torode
Serves: makes about 8-10 fritters
Ingredients
For the lamb fritters
500g roast lamb, fat trimmed off and diced into pieces the size of your thumb1 small onion, finely diced300g self-raising flour1 teaspoon salt350ml cold watervegetable oil for fryingfreshly ground black pepper For the vegetables
300gr sprouting broccoli2 washed and leeks sliced into rings200g frozen peasTablespoon of mint sauce40g butterSalt and fresh ground pepper
Method
Heat the oven to 160c/gas 3.
Mix together the lamb and onion. In a separate large bowl mix together the flour, salt, some pepper and water. Drop the lamb and onion into the flour and mix well.
You will need to cook the fritters in at least two batches. Pour a good layer of oil into a large frying pan – it should be about 0.5cm deep. Drop large tablespoons of the fritter mixture into the oil.
These little morsels are cooked in the same way as a pancake – slowly over a medium heat for 3-4 minutes, until brown around the edges. Turn the heat down if the fritters cook too frantically. Turn the fritters over and leave to cook for another few minutes until they’re brown and crispy.
Move the cooked fritters into a roasting tin and pop then in the oven to keep warm while you cook the remaining batch(es).
For the vegetables
Fill a large cold saute pan with water, turn on the heat and bring to the boil, add the butter and melt with 100ml water and a good amount of S&P.
In a large pan melt the butter with 100ml water and a good amount of S&P
Add the leeks and cook at a summer for 5 minutes until soft .
Boil the broccoli and peas , drain and add t I the leeks , by now most of the water will have evaporated .
Give a good shake around and add the mint sauce .
Serve with the fritters and maybe some bubble and squeak .