Dorper lamb in lupin and za’atar crust with sweet potato and lupin salad with moroccan flavours
Recipe Credit: Grain Industry Association of Western Australia
Ingredients
Lamb ingredients
8 double ribs; French trimmed Dorper Lamb Cutlets
150 g lupin flakes
30 g rice flour
15 g Ras el Hanout
500 ml Fini olive oil
1 lemon, grilled
10 g sugar
2 eggs
50 g za'atar
Salad ingredients
1 large sweet potato, peeled
8 golden beetroot pieces
2 medium beetroot pieces
garlic oil – fresh garlic in extra version olive oil
80 g fresh goats cheese
1 bunch flat leaf parsley
1 Pemberton finger Lime
100 g macadamia nuts
60 ml chardonnay vinegar
15 g cumin seeds
1 cinnamon quill (broken up)
pink river salt
Directions
Method
1Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
2Peel and cut beetroot into cubes, toss with garlic oil and season with salt. Trim and peel golden beetroots and toss with garlic oil and season with salt. Peel and cut sweet potato into one centimetre cubes, toss with garlic oil, season. Place beetroot and sweet potato onto a roasting tray, roast until cooked but crisp.
3Place all the beetroot trimmings on a tray with garlic oil and season, roast in the oven until soft, then blend to make a fine puree, finish with a touch of vinegar.
4Cut lamb racks into 8 x 2 ribs. Lightly coat in rice flour. dip into egg wash (beaten eggs). Coat in lupin crumb.
5Heat pan, add oil and check temperature be-fore placing cutlets into pan. Cook until golden and turn over. Cook for another two minutes. Remove from pan, place on a tray and finish cooking in hot oven (4-5 minutes).
6Remove cutlets from oven and place on absorbent paper, then rest in a warm place (uncovered).
7Sprinkle two half lemons with sugar and grill in pan.
8Toast lupin flake in the oven then mix with salt, cumin and cinnamon powder, then blend or mortar.
9Roughly crush macadamia nuts and add to roast beetroot.
10Remove sweet potato and beetroot from the oven when cooked.
11Add the beetroot, sweet potato, nuts, parsley and crumbled goats cheese together. Season with lupin salt.
To serve
12Place a circular ring on the plate, spoon in the beetroot and the sweet potato mix, press down then remove the ring and sprinkle with lupin salt and picked parsley and finger lime, drizzle with vinegar and extra virgin olive oil (5050).
13Place lamb alongside sweet potato and lupin salad, serve with grilled lemon.
14Smear a little beetroot puree.
15Accompany with the lupin and cumin salt.
Dorper lamb in lupin and za’atar crust with sweet potato and lupin salad with moroccan flavours