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Hyderabadi Biryani
Marinated raw lamb layered under half-cooked rice and sealed with dough, so the meat and rice cook together in…
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Dinner
Shepherd's Pie
Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a piped mash with crisp golden ridges. Made with beef it is a cottage pie; the…
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Lamb Rogan Josh
Kashmiri lamb braised in a yoghurt gravy stained deep red by Kashmiri chilli, scented with fennel and dried ginger…
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Dinner
Irish Stew
Lamb neck, potatoes and onions simmered slowly in stock with nothing else in the pot. The potatoes on top stay…
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Appetizers
Seekh Kebab
Spiced minced lamb moulded onto skewers and cooked over coals, kept juicy by fat, papaya paste and a rest in the…
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Lamb Kofta Kebabs
Spiced lamb worked until it turns sticky, moulded around skewers and grilled hard so the outside chars while the…
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Moussaka
Layers of roasted aubergine, spiced lamb ragù and a thick béchamel enriched with egg yolks and kefalotyri, baked…
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İskender Kebab
Sliced döner laid over cubes of pide bread, drenched in a light tomato sauce, with browned butter poured over at the…
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Ghormeh Sabzi
The Persian herb stew: several bunches of herbs fried down almost to black, with lamb, kidney beans and dried limes…
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Xinjiang Cumin Lamb
Xinjiang's signature: lamb seared hard in a smoking wok with whole cumin seed, chilli flakes and nothing much else…
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Pastitsio
Greek baked pasta: tubes of bucatini standing on end under spiced lamb and a thick béchamel set with egg and cheese…
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Kashmiri Rogan Josh
The Kashmiri classic: lamb braised in a brick-red gravy coloured by Kashmiri chillies and perfumed with fennel…
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Baking
Lahmacun
Paper-thin Turkish flatbread spread with spiced minced lamb and baked in a fierce oven for four minutes. Rolled up…
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Keema Matar
Minced lamb browned hard and simmered with peas in a tight, dry masala. A weeknight dish across North India and…
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Haleem
Wheat, barley, lentils and meat cooked for hours and then pounded together until the whole pot becomes one smooth…
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Maqluba
Rice, meat and fried vegetables layered in a pot and flipped out whole at the table so it stands as a cake. The name…
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Baking
Turkish Pide
Boat-shaped flatbreads with the edges rolled and pinched around a filling of spiced lamb or cheese and egg, baked…
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Dinner
Goan Lamb Vindaloo
The Goan original, descended from a Portuguese pork dish preserved in wine and garlic. Vinegar, not just chilli, is…
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Lunch
Bunny Chow
A quarter loaf of white bread hollowed out and filled with Durban mutton curry, with the scooped-out bread on the…
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Holiday Specials
Lamb Mandi
Yemeni lamb steamed over spiced rice until it falls off the bone, then finished with a piece of burning charcoal…
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Dinner
Bobotie
Curried minced beef with dried fruit under a set savoury custard, baked with bay leaves standing in the top. South…
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Chapli Kebab
Flat Peshawari patties of coarse beef with tomato, pomegranate seed and coriander seed, shallow fried in beef fat…
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Baked Kibbeh
Bulgur and lamb pounded to a paste, layered around a spiced filling of more lamb and pine nuts, scored into diamonds…
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Welsh Cawl
Welsh lamb and root vegetable broth, traditionally eaten in two courses: the broth first, then the meat and…
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Mici
Skinless grilled sausages of beef and lamb, worked with garlic, bicarbonate of soda and stock until springy, and…
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Harees
Wheat and meat cooked together for hours and then beaten into a smooth, savoury porridge, finished with ghee and…
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Spiced Lamb Lettuce Cups
Lamb mince fried hard with cumin, cinnamon and Aleppo pepper, spooned into cold lettuce cups with pickled onion — 31…
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Karelian Hot Pot
Three meats, an onion, some peppercorns and water, in a low oven for three and a half hours. There is nothing else…
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Appetizers
Sambousek
Half-moon pastries of spiced lamb and pine nuts, fried until blistered. The dough is made with oil rather than…
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Appetizers
Fried Kibbeh
Torpedoes of bulgur and lean lamb, hollowed by hand, filled with spiced mince and pine nuts, and fried. The hardest…
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Dinner
Kafta bil Sanieh
Spiced lamb pressed flat into a tray, layered with potato and tomato and baked in one dish. The weeknight answer to…
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Kibbeh bil Sanieh
Two layers of bulgur and lamb around a middle of spiced mince and pine nuts, scored into diamonds and baked. The…
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Dinner
Kibbeh Labaniyeh
Kibbeh balls poached in a stabilised yogurt sauce with garlic and dried mint. Warm, sour, and completely unlike the…
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Shish Barak
Tiny meat dumplings pinched into rings and cooked in the same garlic-and-mint yogurt. Fiddly enough that it is a…
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Dinner
Sfiha Baalbakieh
Small open-topped meat pies from Baalbek, the meat sharp with pomegranate molasses and tomato. Open, not sealed, and…
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Quick Meals
Arayes
Pitta stuffed with raw spiced lamb and grilled until the bread crisps and the fat from the meat soaks into it…
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Dinner
Riz a Djaj
Chicken poached with whole spices, its broth used for the rice, the meat pulled and piled back on top with toasted…
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Bamia bi Lahme
Okra and lamb stewed in tomato with a lot of coriander and garlic. Cooked long enough that the okra gives up…
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Fasolia bi Lahme
White beans and lamb stewed with tomato and a great deal of garlic and coriander. The everyday winter pot, eaten…
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Sheikh el Mahshi
Aubergines split, stuffed with lamb and pine nuts, and baked in tomato. The name means "the chief of stuffed…
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Koussa Mahshi
Small courgettes cored and filled with rice and lamb, cooked upright in tomato. Coring them without going through…
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Malfouf Mahshi
Cabbage leaves rolled tight around rice and lamb, packed in layers with garlic and dried mint. The winter cousin of…
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Yakhnet Batata
Potato and lamb stewed in tomato with coriander and garlic until the potatoes start to break and thicken the pot…
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Kousa bil Laban
Stuffed courgettes finished in the garlic and mint yogurt rather than tomato. Milder than the tomato version and, in…
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Bamia Masreya
The Egyptian okra stew: smaller pods than the Levantine version, more tomato, and finished with a hit of fried…
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Fattah
Layers of fried bread, rice and slow-cooked lamb under a sharp garlic and vinegar tomato sauce. The dish of Eid and…
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Dinner
Kofta Masreya
Minced beef and lamb on skewers with onion, parsley and a lot of black pepper, grilled hard over coals or under a…
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Lunch
Chorba Frik
Lamb and freekeh soup thickened by the grain itself, sharpened with harissa and finished with a great deal of…
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Dinner
Couscous Tunisien
Lamb and vegetables in a red harissa broth, with the couscous steamed over the pot so it takes the vapour. The…
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Marqa Hlouwa
Lamb stewed with quince, prunes and cinnamon into something sweet against the harissa. Made for Eid, and the…
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Kamounia
Liver or beef stewed slowly with an aggressive quantity of cumin — kamoun — until the sauce is dark and thick. One…
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Mermez
Lamb and chickpeas in a thin red broth with a lot of onion, poured over bread or couscous. The plainest of the…
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Felfel Mahchi
Long green peppers stuffed with spiced meat and rice and braised in a red sauce until the skins blister and slip…
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Dinner
Rouz Jerbi
The rice of Djerba: steamed rather than boiled, mixed through with lamb, herbs and spinach until it is green and…
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Osbane
Sausage casings filled with rice, offal, herbs and a great deal of chard, simmered and then sliced into a stew. The…
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Dinner
Berkoukes
Hand-rolled semolina pearls the size of peppercorns, cooked in a lamb and vegetable broth. Larger than couscous…
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Madfouna
Lamb and chard buried under a lid of dough and baked, so the meat steams in its own juices. Madfouna means buried…
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Navarin d'Agneau
Lamb braised with the first vegetables of spring, each added at its own moment. The vegetables are the point, not a…
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Gigot d'Agneau
Leg of lamb studded with garlic and anchovy and roasted pink over potatoes that catch the juices. The anchovy is not…
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Épaule d'Agneau de 7 Heures
Lamb shoulder cooked for seven hours until it can be served with a spoon. No knife on the table, which is the…
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Quick Meals
Rognons à la Moutarde
Lamb kidneys seared hard and finished in a mustard cream sauce. Fifteen minutes, and the kidneys must leave the pan…
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Lunch
Scotch Broth
Lamb, barley and root vegetables cooked into one thick pot until a spoon stands up in it. The soup that stands in…
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Dinner
Lancashire Hotpot
Lamb and onions under a lid of sliced potato that browns while everything beneath it goes to nothing. Two and a half…
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Dinner
Steak and Kidney Pudding
Suet pastry lining a basin, filled with beef and kidney and steamed for four hours until the crust is translucent…
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Dinner
Liver and Bacon with Onion Gravy
Lamb's liver kept pink in the middle under a heap of onion gravy. Twenty minutes, and the reason to be careful is…
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Breakfast
Devilled Kidneys
Lamb's kidneys in a mustard, cayenne and Worcestershire sauce, on toast, at breakfast. A Victorian sideboard dish…
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Dinner
Roast Lamb with Mint Sauce
A leg of lamb studded with garlic and rosemary, pink in the middle, with a mint sauce sharp enough to cut it…
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Dinner
Mutton Curry
Bone-in mutton browned hard and simmered ninety minutes in onion and whole spice, until the gravy is dark and the…
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Lamb Kleftiko
Lamb shoulder sealed in parchment with lemon, oregano and potatoes and cooked three and a half hours. The parcel is…
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Adana Kebab
Hand-minced lamb with tail fat and red pepper, pressed onto flat skewers and grilled over charcoal. Named for the…
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Dinner
Manti
Dumplings the size of a fingernail under garlic yoghurt and paprika butter. Eighty minutes, most of it folding.
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Dinner
Karnıyarık
Aubergines fried whole, split down the middle and filled with spiced lamb, then baked in tomato. The name means…
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Dinner
Aloo Keema
Minced lamb and potato cooked down together until the mince is dry and catching. A Pakistani weeknight standard.
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Dinner
Mansaf
Lamb cooked in fermented yoghurt, spread over rice and flatbread with toasted nuts. Jordan's national dish, and a…
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Appetizers
Sfiha
Open lamb pies the size of a saucer, tart with pomegranate molasses. Baalbek makes them flat and thin.
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