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
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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
- Preheat slow cooker
- 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.
- 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.
- Add the stock gradually stirring continuously until it thickens. Add the tomato purée, sugar, rosemary and bring to a boil.
- Pour over lamb in slow cooker and top with cherry tomatoes. Replace the lid and cook for at least 8 hours.
- Serve over a bed of tagliatelle with a side green salad.
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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
Sounds yum. Will give it a go. My mum does a similar recipe but it has flageolet beans instead of the pancetta.
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.
Rapidly becoming a household favourite – lovely recipe :)
Probably one of my top 5 Slow Cooker Recipes.
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)
Freya made this last night and it was soooooo good! :-)
Im trying this dish tonight…I hope it turns out as amazing as all the reviews :)
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!