Slow Cooked Abruzzi Lamb

This one of our most favourite slow cooker recipes of all time.  I can’t emphasize enough how gorgeous it is.  It does serve 3-4 but we ate it all between the two of us.

Slow Cooked Abruzzi Lamb

Recipe Type: Main
Cuisine: Italian
Author: Mediocre Mum
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Serves: 3-4
Ingredients
  • 1 TBSP of olive oil
  • 500-750 g of lamb or mutton cubed
  • Salt and pepper
  • 100g pancetta
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 tsp of lazy garlic or 2 garlic cloves
  • 2 TBSP of plain flour
  • 300 ml of lamb stock
  • I TBSP tomato purée
  • 2 tsp of light muscovado sugar
  • 2-3 sprigs of rosemary
  • 300g cherry tomatoes
  • Tagliatelle
  • Salad
Instructions
  1. Preheat slow cooker
  2. Heat oil in a frying pan; season the lamb with a bit of salt and pepper and then brown (5-7 min), transfer to slow cooker.
  3. Saute the onions with the pancetta for 3-5 minutes until the onion is soft, add the garlic and cook for two minutes, sprinkle with flour, stir and cook for another a minute.
  4. Add the stock gradually stirring continuously until it thickens. Add the tomato purée, sugar, rosemary and bring to a boil.
  5. Pour over lamb in slow cooker and top with cherry tomatoes. Replace the lid and cook for at least 8 hours.
  6. Serve over a bed of tagliatelle with a side green salad.

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10 responses to “Slow Cooked Abruzzi Lamb”

  1. Gillian Carr Avatar
    Gillian Carr

    Abruzzi Lamb is fabulous! Beautiful and tender and makes a nice change from spicy slow cooker receipies. Next time I make it I’m going to try adding a can of chopped tomatoes and a little stock as I think it would make a better sauce to have with the pasta. Loved it though, the cherry tomatoes were fabulous! thanks

  2. fantasticpru Avatar
    fantasticpru

    Sounds yum. Will give it a go. My mum does a similar recipe but it has flageolet beans instead of the pancetta.

  3. Reluctant Housedad Avatar
    Reluctant Housedad

    Awesome recipe. And I am blessed with having a half shoulder of lamb, some pancetta AND a slow cooker, so that’s me sorted then.

  4. danny Avatar

    Rapidly becoming a household favourite – lovely recipe :)

  5. mediocremum Avatar

    Probably one of my top 5 Slow Cooker Recipes.

  6. Cindy @Hun... What's for Dinner? Avatar

    What a wonderful Crock Pot recipe. I’m sure it is delicious! Thank you so much for linking up to Simple Supper Tuesday at Hun…. What’s for Dinner? :o)

  7. Jo Avatar
    Jo

    Freya made this last night and it was soooooo good! :-)

  8. […] Abruzzi Lamb a firm favourite in our house. […]

  9. A Avatar
    A

    Im trying this dish tonight…I hope it turns out as amazing as all the reviews :)

  10. Jim Avatar
    Jim

    This is now one of our favourite slow cooker meals. Also, due to a forgetting-to-defrost-the-lamb incident, we discovered it works really well with pork too!

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