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Tender Lamb Stew with Homemade Potato Mash

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 45 minutes
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 1 lbs cubed lamb 500g
  • 400 ml tomato sauce
  • 400 ml water
  • 1 Tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 large onion
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 large carrot
  • 1/2 tsp thyme (dried)
  • 1/2 tsp basil (dried)
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 3 lbs white potatoes (1400g)
  • 1 cup 35% cream
  • 1/2 cup whole milk
  • 1 Tbsp butter
  • salt

Instructions

  • Peel and chop onion.
  • Peel and crush garlic.
  • Peel and finely chop carrot.
  • Heat a little olive oil over medium heat and once hot fry onion and garlic in it until translucent.
  • Add tomato paste and carrots and mix well.
  • Add tomato sauce and water and bring to the boil, once boiling add lamb cubes, thyme, basil, salt and pepper and reduce heat to simmer.
  • Simmer for a total of 2.5 hours.
  • After 1 hour 45 minutes wash, peel and quarter potatoes and put in a large pot with water covering the potato quarters completely.
  • Boil potatoes until tender (approx. 20 minutes once water is boiling). Use a wooden pick to proof if they are tender.
  • Drain potato quarters in a colander and then transfer back into the pot, add cream, milk, butter and salt and using an electric hand mixer (not a blender, a mixer, or if you don't have one a potato masher) and mix all ingredients together.
  • Season both potato mash and stew to taste with salt and pepper and serve hot.