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Lancashire Hotpot

Neck of lamb and kidneys are layered with sliced onions and thyme under a blanket of overlapping potatoes and baked slowly in stock. The lid comes off at the end so the potato edges brown.

  • Yield4 servings
  • Hands-on40 min
  • Total3 h 25 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Hotpot

  • 4lamb kidneys
  • 1 kgneck end of lamb
  • 1 tbspvegetable oil
  • 20 gunsalted butter, 15 g melted for the top, the rest for greasing
  • 1 kgfloury potatoes, such as Russets, thinly sliced
  • 3onions, finely sliced
  • 2 sprigsthyme
  • 2bay leaves
  • 1 tspsuperfine sugar
  • 420 mllamb stock
  • to tastesalt
  • to tasteblack pepper

Contains

  • Dairy
  • Celery
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Potato (white)
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Cabbage family (any)
  • Carrot
  • Thyme
  • Bay leaf
  • Black and white pepper
  • All mammal meat (alpha-gal)
  • Beef and veal
  • Lamb and mutton
  • Gelatin

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh

Texture

  • Tender-braised

Equipment

  • Oven
  • Dutch oven

Season

  • Fall
  • Winter

Occasion

  • Weekend project

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • Over 3 hours total
  • Difficulty 2
  • Leftovers-friendly
  • One pot

Nutrition

  • Calories: high
  • Protein: high
  • Carbs: high
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: moderate
  • Sodium: moderate

Budget

  • Budget: low

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