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Roasted rack of lamb

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Rack of Lamb with Tomatoes, Broad Beans & Honey Summer Salad

Serves 2

Ingredients

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Directions

  1. Firstly remove the lamb from the refrigerator and allow it to come to room temperature (about 30 minutes) before cooking. This will really make a huge difference to the cooking process.
  2. Score the fat and season well with salt, pepper and English mustard powder.
  3. Place the lamb on a rack and cook in a good, hot oven (around 200°C) for around 20/25 minutes. The fat should be crispy and golden, and the meat a blushing pink and not too rare.
  4. Leave to rest in a warm place for around 10 minutes. Along with cooking the meat at room temperature, resting the meat will make all the difference.
  5. Whilst the meat rests you can prepare the accompanying summer salad. Cut the heirloom tomatoes into nice chunks and lightly season with salt.
  6. Add the young broad beans. If they are young and lovely you can add them raw in their skins, if a little older or frozen, cook quickly and pod them to reveal the bright green bean inside.
  7. Whisk together runny honey, lemon juice, a good glug of peppery olive oil.
  8. Dress the salad lightly and finally add some torn basil leaves and a crack of black pepper.
  9. Slice the rested rack into chops/cutlets, it should be tender, juicy and pink. Pile your tomatoes alongside and pour over any warm resting juices.

Karl’s cookery journey has been varied, from a humble pub in the Norfolk Broads to some of the world’s most acclaimed restaurants. Karl is a man impassioned by seasonal British produce, and cooks with deceptive simplicity; with dishes like toad in the hole and tripe on toast being amongst his favourites. Karl found his spiritual home in the pioneering atmosphere of St. JOHN in Farringdon, and later at St. JOHN Bread & Wine in Spitalfields. After an impressive stint in the US, Karl returned home to launch kitchens at the Drapers Arms and Bistro Union, both proudly winning a coveted Bib Gourmand within the first year of opening. In 2016, Karl headed up Shepherds of Westminster, restoring its reputation as one of London’s top places to eat seasonal, British fare. More recently he’s been running the kitchen at Mayfair’s award-winning Kitty Fisher’s restaurant to great acclaim.