1/2 a shoulder of lamb - any ideas?

[londonmackem]

I have half a shoulder of lamb that weighs 9.2kg. I would like to cook something that could be served with cous cous and tzatziki but an English/traditional recipe would be fine too. The only recipes I can find are for whole shoulders of 2kg and am unsure of how to reduce the timings. I don't have a slow cooker.

chop it up into cubes, remove bone and cook in a big pot with dried fruits, saffron etc to make a really nice moroccan tagine. probably some good recipes online.

Half a shoulder of lamb at 9.2Kgs? That sounds like half a sheep, not half a shoulder!

Don't you mean 920 gms?

yes grams - doh! Or even 0.92kg I misread the label.

Jamie Oliver's 5 hour lamb is delicious but you need more liquid than he says. It's for half a shoulder I think.

Slow roasted. Put some rosemary and garlic cloves underneath it. Rub it with olive oil and salt and pepper it. Put in a roasting tin and seal foil over the top- scrunch it around the edges of the tin.
Put into a hot oven 200o then imediately turn down to about 140o and cook for 4 hours.
This is my version of Jamie's.

Rick Stein does a delicious stew with the lamb braised in rosé with flageolets, but you'll need to take the shoulder off the bone.

If you'd rather roast it then try smearing with tapenade (minced black olives) or a paste of anchovy, rosemary and garlic.

I'm doing the same as FlyMeToDunoon tomorrow but I whisk the olive oil with some anchovy paste and smear that over the top.
It's delicious.

We're having with roast veg (sweet potato, aubergine, red onion wedges, cherry toms) and cous cous plainly done in chicken stock. I'll use the de-fatted juices from the lamb to drizzle over and a yoghurt/mint dressing too.

Dead easy and a great party favourite is slow cooked lamb shoulder with butter beans.
Season and brown the lamb well on all sides, chuck into large deep roasting tin.
Chop couple of onions,saute' until soft; chop few stalks of celery, few carrots and couple of leeks, chuck in with the onions and saute for about 10 min. Chuck the lot in with lamb, add a cup or so red wine, couple of Knorr chicken cubes, some thyme, cover and pop in oven at 180C for couple of hours. Take out, add 2 tins of chopped tomatoes and couple of tins of rinsed butter beans, check the seasoning, back in the oven for couple of hours.
It'll fall off the bone, serve with crusty bread and salad and ballsy red.
Yum.

Simply roast on gas 4 for 1.5hrs will be brilliant as a traditional roast.

Hugh FW does a north african chicken dish with preserved lemons. I subsitute the chicken for lamb and cook slow and low 2hrs..serve with couscous - delics.

I love shoulder, cheap and tasty.