Leg of lamb leftover - what to do?

[Anonymousbird]

We are having roast lamb today and I am not expecting much by way of leftover meat, maybe a little. But the bone always still has quite a lot attached to it, all those nice scraps.

What can I do with the leg, and possibly small chunks of meat - thinking soup, but not made it from a leg of lamb before. Lentils to go in? Celery??? Don't think there is enough meat for a stew, but open for ideas....

Any ideas gratefully received!

Soup is good - a broth with barley and vegetables.

The scraps make delicious sandwiches.

And my children love rissoles - cut the meat up really small, then mix it and any leftover vegetables into some mashed potato (cunningly also a planned leftover!) then make it into cakes, dip in egg and breadcrumbs and shallow fry.

Put the meat in a toasted pitta bread with some feta cheese, small dollop of natural yoghurt and salad and you have something vaguely greek for lunch - an absolutely yum!

Make kiddie size, freezable portions of shepherds pie by adding more veg, some gravy and topping with mash.

I was going to say what HollyBoo said, but I stuff my pitas with salad, tomatoes, lamb, feta and lots of chilli sauce.

The other thing that's delicious with scraps of leftover roast lamb is to take any leftover gravy (particularly if you didn't thicken it with flour, but I don't suppose it matters if you did) and use it to moisten a tin of drained and rinsed flageolet beans. Heat up with some sprigs of rosemary and stir in the scraps of lamb.

Oh, last time I did the flageolet thing I also added some slowly fried courgettes with garlic. Mmm.

Make a pilaf ... slowly fry onions, add the scraps of meat, garlic and appropriate spices - cumin, cinnamon etc - and fry a little longer. Stir in basmati rice, and some dried fruit (cherries or finely chopped apricots)and enough stock for the rice (can keep topping up if not sure). Simmer with lid for about 15 mins, stir in some finely chopped nuts (pistachios, ideally) and mint/parsley if you have some. Yum - we are having this tonight with left-over lamb shoulder made in the slow cooker yesterday. I guess you could boil the bone up with veg to make the stock?

Dotty - I love the sound of the pilaf. That could be tomorrow night's supper (if DH hasn't stolen all the available scraps from the fridge before then.... )

And yes, I entirely agree that lamb slithers in sandwich/pitta with a selection of condiments and salad is pretty heavenly.

Oh gosh, thereistheball, just re-read the flageolet one - I adore flag. beans, sorry, didn't register that first time around. Mmmmm. How lovely that sounds.

Thanks all.