Mutton

Stephen_Leak

A much under-rated meat, IMHO.

http://www.cookipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Category:Mutton_recipes

http://www.muttonrenaissance.org.uk/

KT1985

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

A much under-rated meat, IMHO.

http://www.cookipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Category:Mutton_recipes

http://www.muttonrenaissance.org.uk/

Thanks for the links

I know I like it- it is oh I am worried about. I was hoping to put it with mint sauce and hope he doesn't notice. Oh well, will report back later when we have eaten it :beer:

Skint_Catt

I've had mutton curry in the back of my head for months - I really must get down to the butchers this week to see if they've got any - never seen it in the supermarkets

pinkparrott

we love it. We have fairly recently "discovered it" as i ate a mutton tagine at my brother in laws and it was the best meal i've possibly ever had.

Anyway my local butchers is quite posh and sometimes a bit poncy and overpriced, but they always write on the board outside when they have mutton (and other specials) and i always go in to get some but if i dont get in ealry its always gone. Its lovley Yorkshire Dales Mutton.

I got 2 kgs the other day of shoulder (it was a full shoulder on the bone but i asked and they diced it up for me) for £9 (spring lamb can be up to 4x as much )

I'm going to make some curries with 1/2 and a big mutton and prune tagine (i use Rick Steins recipie from his mediteranean escapes book) which i'm going to freeze for christmas eve .

I can get enough of it, also I think its much leaner than lamb too which i think is a bonus.

If you live anywhere near any asian supermarkets they always sell mutton as thats what indian/ pakistan restaurants use in their curries that they describe as lamb as its a much better flavour.

ChapelGirl

Mutton is grown-up lamb, which means it usually has a stronger flavour and less fat (so is likely to be drier or tougher). I used to buy it from Halal butchers in Southall (along with goat meat) and it is excellent for very slow-cooked recipes such as curries, but is useless for frying.

You may have heard of "mutton dressed as lamb"? This is an unflattering expression usually used to describe an older woman who is trying to pass herself off as someone younger by the way she makes up and dresses, in the way that a butcher might try to disguise tough old mutton as this season's best lamb by "dressing" it (i.e. trimming it up a bit).

You can also sometimes get hogget, which is a sheep which is older than a lamb but not as old as mutton. Hogget makes good curry or stew too, but I wouldn't try to cook it quickly.

KT1985

Just to report back- the mutton was fine, (hubby still alive) lovely flavour. We have a leg to do next week sometime, I will do that in the slow cooker I think.

We are lucky here in that we have a butchers right next to the outdoor market where I can buy trays of things like this. I think I might buy more meat this way as it is so much cheaper and so much nicer. thanks for everyones help!

talulahbeige_2

We use mutton in our home made curries and it is wonderful. My tip is to soak it in milk overnight befoer you use it, it softens it up.

Stephen_Leak

Hoggett - now, there's a word I haven't heard for a long time.

I can do you recipes for a general purpose meat curry and an Irish stew, both of which should be fabulous with proper mutton.

Ladyhawk

hotcookie101 wrote: »

Halal slaughter does not allow stunning, and is the subject of a lot of animal welfare campaigning/debate

This is not actually true anymore - 100% of NZ lamb/mutton is halal and stunned and 74% of UK halal lamb/mutton is stunned up from 50% in 2007/2008.

The issue for the Islamic population was that the prayer has to be said at the instant of death and that death had to be caused by the throat being slit. They were unconvinced that stunning the animal wasn't indeed killing it. As more research has been done, it was proven that stunning the animal did not kill it, which is why we see the rise in the number of beasts being stunned now before halal slaughter.

Personally until 100% of meat slaughtered for the halal market in the UK is stunned I would not eat it. But then again, I am a fussy old thing when it comes to animal welfare and the food chain.

Ladyhawk

PS. mutton curry is absoutely gorgeous!!!