5 Minute Fall-apart Massaman Lamb Shoulder

This is simply a look for a succulent fall-apart tender lamb enarthrosis that is dilatory cooked successful a affluent massaman curry sauce, presented successful a expansive roast lamb centrepiece form. My existent most-made lamb enarthrosis recipe. Got 5 minutes to marque it? 🙂

5 Minute Fall-apart Massaman Lamb Shoulder

This look is going to prevention you connected those occasions erstwhile you request to service a radical and are pressed for time, yet inactive wanting to marque thing that looks impressive. I mean, we person a estimation to uphold, aft all! 🙂

You virtually conscionable enactment everything successful a pan, which takes each of 5 minutes, past permission it successful the oven to dilatory roast for 4 hours.

And what comes retired is extraordinary. The lamb nutrient is succulent fall-apart tender, swimming successful a to-die-for massaman curry condiment with brushed potatoes that virtually melt successful your mouth.

Plus, it tin beryllium made the time earlier because it reheats 100% perfectly (can’t accidental that astir about roasts!) and it’s kid friendly due to the fact that Massaman curry isn’t spicy.

Cynical? Don’t blasted you!

If it sounds excessively bully to beryllium existent – I don’t blasted you for being cynical! This look works precise specifically due to the fact that it’s slow-roasted (allows clip for the condiment and nutrient to make flavour), we’re utilizing lamb nutrient (more flavourful than chicken, pork and beef) and due to the fact that we’re utilizing a richly flavoured curry condiment arsenic the braising liquid.

Need much proof? Head implicit to the Massaman Lamb Shanks. Same method. Glowing reviews!

Lamb Shank version

Shoulder mentation – much perfect for sharing

Ingredients successful Massaman Lamb Shoulder

A shortcut successful this look is that we usage store bought curry paste. In fact, homemade Massaman Curry paste doesn’t enactment for this look due to the fact that it’s excessively fresh! We request the concentrated flavour of store bought.

Also, arsenic mentioned above, utilizing lamb present is simply a deliberate choice. In fact, accepted Massaman Curry is made with beef but I opt for lamb due to the fact that it’s a stronger flavoured meat.

1. Lamb shoulder

Lamb enarthrosis is simply a chopped of lamb that needs to beryllium cooked agelong and dilatory to springiness the pugnacious nutrient fibres clip to interruption down and go tender. You can’t navigator enarthrosis to blushing pinkish similar a traditional Lamb Leg, it’s conscionable excessively tough.

• Where to get it – These days, you tin find enarthrosis successful regular market stores present successful Australia. It utilized to beryllium cheaper than lamb limb but present it’s astir the aforesaid price. But, it is much succulent and has amended flavour than lamb leg!

• Get bony successful because the nutrient is juicier. Trust maine connected this, I’ve tested bone-in and boneless broadside by side. The quality is phenomenal! (See FAQ for much information).

• Other lamb cuts – For lamb shanks, usage the Massaman Lamb Shanks recipe (it’s somewhat different). Boneless lamb enarthrosis volition enactment but trim the cooking clip by an hour.

• Other proteins – I don’t deliberation beef chuck would adhd capable flavour into the condiment for this method of cooking (ie nary searing nutrient prior). Beef abbreviated ribs bash enactment (reduce cook clip by astir 1 1/2 hours, it was great). Pork enarthrosis volition besides enactment but I haven’t got my caput astir however bully pork is with massaman curry sauce. Tasty, but possibly amended with beef oregon lamb? Chicken won’t enactment due to the fact that it can’t beryllium cooked agelong capable to springiness the condiment capable clip to make capable flavour. Bear successful caput this look is designed with convenience successful caput which means we request slow-cooking clip for flavour creation!

2. THE CURRY PART

• Massaman Curry paste – Maesri is my preferred brand. Not each curry pastes are made equal! More connected this below.

• Cinnamon and prima anise – Flavour boost of 2 ascendant spices successful Massaman curry paste.

• Coconut milk – As utilized successful traditional Massaman Curry sauce. Look for a coconut beverage that is astatine slightest 80% coconut! Very economical brands tin beryllium arsenic debased arsenic 30% which hardly sensation of coconut. I usage Ayam (89%).

• Chicken stock/broth – To make measurement to marque a braising liquid to mostly submerge the lamb, arsenic good arsenic adding extent of flavour into the sauce. A shortcut – accepted Massaman Curry is made by braising pieces of beef successful liquid to marque a homemade banal which is utilized for the sauce.

  Get low-sodium truthful your condiment doesn’t extremity up excessively salty. (Though it won’t beryllium a catastrophe if you don’t get debased sodium arsenic the elephantine hunk of lamb + potatoes volition sorb the salt).

• Potato and onion – traditionally included successful accepted Massaman Curry. Use full babe potatoes, astir 3cm/1.2″ wide is ideal, truthful they clasp unneurotic and go beautifully brushed and creamy inside. ⚠️ Do not use cubes of chopped murphy arsenic they volition disintegrate and marque the condiment grainy!

3. Maesri curry paste

Here is the undisputed king of each store bought Thai curry pastes – Maesri. Restaurants usage it, chefs usage it, and nutrient obsessed radical similar myself are huffy for it.

And it happens to beryllium sold at regular market stores and it’s the cheapest (currently ~$2.00).

Maesri curry paste

I usage it for each my Thai curries erstwhile I don’t person clip / ingredients to marque the curry paste from scratch – Red, Green and traditional Massaman beef curry. And immoderate different look calling for a dollop oregon 2 of curry paste, from the peanut dipping condiment for Thai Satay Chicken to Thai Coconut Pumpkin Soup to Red Curry Pot Roast Chicken!

• Where to find Maesri curry paste – At your section market store! It’s sold astatine astir metropolitan Coles and Woolworths grocery stores successful Australia (Asian section), astatine Harris Farms, practically each Asian stores (it would beryllium un-Asian not to transportation it!) and present it is online in the US, Canada* and UK.

• Can’t find it? Use immoderate Massaman Curry paste you tin find. My idiosyncratic bid of penchant (Aussie brands) – Ayam, Five Tastes and bringing up the rear is Volcom (it’s ever excessively sweet).

* Obscenely expensive, delight effort to get to an Asian store!

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How to marque Massaman Lamb Shoulder

2 casual steps -put everything into a pan, cook 4 hours! You tin besides usage your dilatory cooker – spot look notes.

1. Sauce – Put the curry, coconut and banal successful a roasting pan. Whisk until lump escaped (including pesky coconut beverage lumps).

   💡If making up to reheat tomorrow, usage a ceramic, solid oregon enamel coated formed robust baking crockery alternatively than a metallic one. I typically effort to debar keeping foods successful immoderate benignant of metallic pans overnight. Just to beryllium cautious!

2. Lamb upside down – Put the lamb enarthrosis successful past crook to overgarment successful the sauce. Then put it truthful it is upside down successful the sauce. i.e. abdominous headdress broadside / meaty broadside down, reddish boney broadside facing up. This mode astir of the nutrient is submerged successful the liquid truthful it braises.

   Scatter the onion, cinnamon, prima anise and potatoes astir the lamb.

3. Slow roast precocious past low – Cover with foil. Roast for 1 hr 220°C/425°F (200°C fan) to get the vigor going wrong the cookware (it’s a large hunk of nutrient there, which takes a portion to vigor up), past 3 hours astatine 180°C/350°F (160°C fan) oregon until the nutrient is fork-tender. This means that you should beryllium capable to pry the nutrient isolated with 2 forks without immoderate effort.

4. Brown it – Remove the foil and cautiously crook the lamb implicit so. Spoon immoderate condiment implicit past popular it backmost successful the oven for 30 minutes until the aboveground is simply a beauteous heavy aureate brown.

   Sauce adjustments – If you don’t person capable condiment erstwhile you region the foil, conscionable adhd h2o earlier browning the lamb. If there’s excessively overmuch / excessively thin, conscionable popular the cookware backmost into the oven without the lamb (once browned). It’s truthful casual to adjust!

   Making ahead? After browning, fto it afloat chill uncovered past refrigerate overnight. On the time of, conscionable reheat it successful the oven covered for 1 hour. See look notes for directions!

5. Skim abdominous – Remove it from the oven and fto it remainder for 10 to 15 minutes. Skim disconnected the excess abdominous from the aboveground of the condiment utilizing a ample spoon. There volition beryllium a just magnitude – astir 1/2 to 3/4 cupful (125 – 180 ml). Lamb enarthrosis is simply a fatty cut, and that is wherefore it is truthful tasty! Don’t effort to get each the abdominous due to the fact that different you’ll suffer excessively overmuch sauce. And remember, abdominous = flavour!

   💡If you refrigerated overnight, you tin assistance sheets of the abdominous disconnected the aboveground of the condiment but beryllium definite to scrape each the condiment disconnected the underside!

6. Garnish and service – If you’re posh (I’m not), transportation everything into a serving crockery past sprinkle with the reddish chilli slices and coriander/cilantro. Serve with atom and tongs – nary carving weapon required here, this is not the carving sort! See the conception beneath for assorted serving styles.

Serving styles

An odd-sounding heading perhaps, but it volition marque consciousness erstwhile I explain! Here are the 3 ways I person served this lamb successful the past fewer months (it’s been regularly utilized since I invented it, truthful useful for groups):

1. Lazy format for acquainted people eg family, casual luncheon with the squad – Leave the full lamb enarthrosis successful the roasting pan. It does get a spot messy arsenic the meat-tearing progresses arsenic the bony gets successful the way, and besides determination are pockets of abdominous that I find radical thin to debar and permission successful the pan. But, it’s little enactment for maine to serve, and the full lamb looks impressive! 🙂 I bash this astir of the time!

2. Meat afloat removed – This 1 is casual for guests to service themselves though lacks the ocular interaction of a full lamb shoulder. Remove each the nutrient disconnected the bony and abstracted into large-ish serving-size chunks. Remove and discard ample identifiable pockets of fat. Squidge nutrient successful sauce, garnish, service with ample serving spoon.

3. Bone removed, lamb in-tact – This is simply a bully mode to person ocular interaction of a full portion of lamb but it’s easier to service due to the fact that the bony is removed. You virtually conscionable drawback the bony and descent it retired of the meat, taking attraction to support the lamb successful tact. Because the nutrient is truthful tender, it should descent retired effortlessly.

Yes this is simply a takeout container. Please unreal it’s a gorgeous rustic bowl.

What to service with Massaman Lamb Shoulder

Rice is essential, for condiment soaking. Jasmine is my archetypal prime (being Thai and all) though basmati is beauteous with it too, fixed the Indian power of Massaman curry. They some person a flimsy perfume of flavour that goes truthful good with this crockery but I’m definite cipher would snob other atom types connected offer! 🙂

I’d suggest opting for a airy and caller broadside crockery arsenic this crockery is rather rich. It’s pictured supra with an Asian Slaw connected the side. Some much suggestions: Leafy Asian salad, Chang’s Crispy Noodle Salad, Smashed Cucumber Salad, Japanese Slaw, Glass Noodle Salad (skip the chicken), oregon immoderate caller vegetables/salady things / blanched greens you privation tossed with my elemental 4 constituent Asian Sesame Dressing.

Enjoy! – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

Lamb enarthrosis is simply a steadfast favourite for entertaining

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