Fast autumn lamb stir-fry
Stir-fried lamb with orange and mushrooms
Serves
4
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
You don’t often think of using lamb in a stir-fry, but it is delicious. The success to a good stir-fry is to have all your ingredients prepared and placed in the order you are going to add them to the wok, as this is all about quick cooking.
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400g Quality Mark lamb steaks
2 oranges
250ml beef stock
3 Tbsp liquid honey
2 Tbsp soy sauce
1 Tbsp green chilli sauce
2 Tbsp cornflour
1/2 cup peanut oil
1/2 eggplanti
chopped into cubes250g button mushrooms
wiped and halved if large420g can corn
cut each small cob in half3cm knob fresh ginger
grated
1 Tbsp sesame seeds
toasted1/4 cup mint leaves
roughly choppedBasmati rice
Method
Grate the zest of both oranges into a small bowl.
Cut away the peel and pith from each orange and segment over the bowl collecting the juice as you go.
Place orange segments on a plate and set aside.
Add the stock, honey, soy sauce and chilli sauce into the bowl with the orange zest and juice.
Mix well and set aside.
Cut the lamb in strips (3cm x 1cm), season and coat the lamb with the cornflour.
Heat a wok or large frying pan over a high heat.
Add a dash of oil and when hot, add the eggplant cubes and stir-fry until golden and soft, about 3 minutes.
Add the mushrooms, stir-frying until soft.
Add baby corn and stir-fry for 30 seconds.
Transfer all to a bowl.
Add one more dash of oil to the wok and heat until just smoking.
Add half of the lamb strips and stir-fry until browned, about 1 minute, then add to vegetables.
Add remaining lamb strips and repeat.
Add ginger to the wok and stir-fry for 10 seconds.
Add orange and stock mixture and bring to the boil.
Boil until reduced by one-third.
Return lamb and vegetables to the wok and stir-fry until heated through.
Stir the sesame seeds and mint into the wok and season with salt.
Place lamb and vegetables in a warmed serving bowl and top with the orange segments.
Serve with steamed rice.
Nutrition Information per Serving (523g)
This dish provides a good source of zinc, contributing to healthy bones, hair and nails. The nutrition analysis is based on 4 serves and does not include the rice to serve. To reduce the sodium and fat in this recipe, use reduced salt stock and soy sauce, and reduce the amount of peanut oil.
