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Easy Lamb Rump and Spring Salad

Easy Lamb Rump and Spring Salad

With your Délonghi oven your can use the grill option to easily cook some perfect lamp rump steaks for delicious and substantial salad option.

By simply taking fresh sweet salad greens and drizzling with a little dressing made with olive oil, lemon juice or wine vinegar and a little mustard mixed in – your side salad can become a main feature – you can add some tuna, or chopped egg, ham or cheese and embrace this meal as a popular lunch option or try this lamb salad option.

This recipe is supplied courtesy of Annabelle White.

Ingredients

Talk to your butcher and get some good lamb rump for this recipe.

  • 1.2 kg approx 4 lamp rumps
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • 2 Tbsp grated lemon rind
  • 2 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 Tbsp dry white wine
  • 2 tsp seasoned pepper
  • 2 Tbsp chopped fresh thyme
  • 2 cloves garlic, sliced
  • 1 Tbsp fresh rosemary

Method

  1. Mix oil, lemon rind and juice, wine, pepper and thyme together in a jug.
  2. Using the point of a sharp knife, make incisions in the lamp rump and insert slices of garlic and rosemary.
  3. Pour the oil mix over the lamb. Refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight, turning the lamb occasionally.
  4. Drain the lamb and reserve the marinade.
  5. Allow the meat to come up to room temperature before cooking.
  6. Preheat the grill in your oven and cook the meat on a baking tray for 10-15 minutes on each side.
  7. Allow meat to rest for 10 minutes before serving.
  8. Serve over dressed salad and with heated reserved marinade, if desired on the side or drizzle with mint or basil pesto (mixed with a little olive oil) and drizzle down the cooked meat slices

Serving Suggestions

  • Serve with salad of your choice
  • This can be par cooked asparagus, salad greens grated carrot, tomato, crumbled blue cheese or feta, chopped sun dried tomatoes, cucumber, sliced hard-boiled egg, sliced avocado– whatever you can manage.
  • Also a good idea is to not use a non-stick baking tray under the hot heat from the oven – use an old roasting tray as the heat can do damage to some non stick trays.
Salad Tips
  • Search out the best greens – check out suppliers at your local farmer’s market or high turnover store. They are easy to grow – get adventurous it is hugely satisfying.
  • Don’t refrigerate tomatoes – they lose all their flavour.
  • Keep the dressing simple – it can be as simple as good quality olive oil and lemon juice, salt and pepper.
  • If you buy a commercial dressing you can improve the flavour hugely by adding a squeeze of lemon juice to the dressing just prior to use – the acidity transforms the flavour!

Preparation Time: 

30 Minutes (does not include time for marinating)

Cooking Time: 

60 Minutes

Serves: 

4 People