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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Rest Middle Eastern

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Put the garlic, cinnamon, cumin, oregano and lemon in a blender with 1 tsp salt and 2 tsp black pepper. Blend until smooth. | 2. Put the lamb in a large roasting tin and tip the marinade over the top. Massage all over the lamb and leave for 24 hrs in the fridge, or up to 2 days. | 3. Remove lamb from the fridge 1 hr before cooking. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/ gas 3. Scatter the onions around the lamb, tucking some underneath, then pour over the pomegranate juice. Cover the lamb with foil and cook for 4 hours. | 4. Remove the foil, carefully pour the meaty pomegranate juices from the tin into a large saucepan and add the honey. Increase oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7, re-cover the lamb and continue cooking for 30 minutes Meanwhile, bubble the cooking liquid over a high heat until reduced, thick and syrupy – this may take up to 30 minutes. | 5. Pour the sticky pomegranate glaze over the lamb and onions and return to the oven for another 30 mins, uncovered, until the glaze is bubbling and just starting to char, and the lamb is really tender. Mix the yogurt, most of the pomegranate seeds and mint leaves in a small bowl. Shred the lamb at the table and serve with the sticky onions and the minty pomegranate yogurt. Scatter over the remaining pomegranate seeds. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
garlic clove	4		chopped	-	-	-	-
cinnamon	2	teaspoons	ground	-	-	-	-
cumin	2	teaspoons	ground	15.75	1.8581	0.748	0.9353
oregano	1	tablespoon	dried	7.95	2.0676	0.27	0.1284
lemon	1		quartered	1.2808	0.4116	0.0486	0.0132
leg lamb	1 1/2	1/2		1564.92	0.0	121.8596	116.1443
red onion	2		cut	128.0	29.888	3.52	0.32
pomegranate juice	1			134.46	32.6937	0.3735	0.7221
clear honey	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
yogurt	250			37362.5	2854.25	2125.375	1990.625
pomegranate seed	100			-	-	-	-
mint leaf	1		chopped	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.