Recipe Category: Main Courses
Chargrilled Lamb with Sugar Peas, Mint and Fetta
A wonderful, full flavoured combination of fresh flavours with fetta.
| Serves: | 4 |
| Preparation Time: | 15 minutes |
| Cooking time: | 15 minutes |
Ingredients
- 140g goat’s fetta
- extra virgin olive oil, as required
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 2 tablespoons fresh mint, finely shredded
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 800g lamb backstrap (tenderloin) or beef fillet
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika (or sweet paprika)
- 2 spring onions, sliced diagonally
- 1 bunch fresh asparagus, cut into 5cm lengths
- 200g sugar snap or snow peas, trimmed
- 1/2 cup frozen peas
- extra tiny mint leaves, for garnish
Method
Crumble fetta cheese. Combine ¼ cup olive oil with lime juice, mustard, honey, 1 tablespoon mint and a pinch of salt to make a dressing. Sprinkle lamb with paprika and pepper and drizzle with oil. Chargrill for 5-6 minutes on each side or until cooked to your liking. Allow to rest covered with foil for at least 10 minutes before slicing, adding any meat juices to the dressing.
Heat olive oil and sauté spring onions, asparagus, sugar snap peas and peas for 5 minutes until tender, adding a little water if needed and season to taste. Stir in remaining mint, portion
Recipe Type: Celebration, Chargrilled, Egg Free, Gluten Free, Vegetables
| Author: | Naomi Crisante |
| Stylist: | Naomi Crisante |
| Photographer: | James Vlahogiannis |
| Date Created: | 18/05/2009 |
