Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Lamp Recipe

I made a typo, but it's funny so it stays. 

And yes, NYU, there are Asian lamb recipes, but they are hard to find. Examples: lamb stirfry with loads of onion, Cantonese lamb stew, I can't think of any others. 

I was originally going to make Chinese lamb, but I got derailed. But here is the fun lamb recipe. It turned out well!

3 chops of lamb, cut into small pieces
1 onion
3 small roma tomatoes
Some amount of fresh mint
1 tsp of ground cinnamon
2 tsp of basil
1/2 lemon
1 orange
1 clove garlic
cooking oil
sugar!

Marinade:
1. Squeeze the juices out of your lemon and orange like a vampire squeezes brains for blood.
2. Put this in a big ziploc bag. Add your spices garlic and mint to the mix.
3. Put the lamb in the bag. Seal the bag and let everything marinate overnight. Don't forget to wake up at 3 A.M. to flip the bag over!

Cooking:
1. Chop your onion into thin strips. Try not to get onion tears because you may end up accidentally cutting your finger.
2. Chop your tomatoes into cubes. If your finger is bleeding, the blood will blend in with the tomatoes. (Don't let this happen. Get a bandaid and antiseptic gel STAT.)
3. Cook your onions in a frying pan until they too are weeping. Then add your tomatoes and let the mixture stew for a short while. Your heat should be on medium high or something.
4. Add your lamb, marinade and all. When the juices start boiling, turn the heat down so everything stews.
5. Add about 2 packets of sugar. Or just add some sugar until your stew is not super sour anymore. Oh I forgot. Add some nice salt and pepper or else vampires will show up!
6. Let everything stew for a while until you think it's ready, about 10-15 minutes. You can either keep this liquidy or reduce your sauce.
7. Yummy! Tastes good! 

Other things to try: 
Add some red wine. This would taste very good. 
Put in other spices, such as turmeric. I don't know, experiment.
If you are fancy, add saffron. Oh man, so delicious.
Use lamb shanks instead of chops. Or some cut of lamb that has connective tissue.
Make this with beef or chicken.
Make something entirely different.
Don't cut yourself with a knife. Ouch!

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