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Lamb Provençal (Carré d'agneau à la Provençale)

RiverFarm
RiverFarm Posts: 216
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
Made this on the egg tonight; sorry, no pics! I used a four-lb section of leg of lamb instead of the rack of lamb the recipe called for, so it took a lot longer to cook than the directions indicate. But the great thing about the Thermapen is that there's no guesswork anymore; I know when it's done! I also used fresh thyme, rosemary and parsley. We cooked it indirect, plate setter feet up and then some fire brick to add room for the potato wedges in a Pyrex bowl underneath the grill, and then I used an uncovered cast iron Dutch oven for the lamb. I cooked it at about 450° for about forty-five minutes to an hour total, breaking up the steps proportionally (i.e. 15 minutes for the first side, 15 minutes for the other and so forth.) It was really good with a salad and French filet green beans frozen from our garden. We also served it with a baguette that we'd baked on the egg the day before.

Carré d’agneau à la Provençale - Lamb Provençal
A lamb recipe from Provence for Rack of Lamb roasted with a mustard, rosemary and thyme crust.
Ingredients
3 lb. (8 ribs) rack of lamb, frenched
3 Tablespoons of olive oil
2 shallots, finely chopped
2 large garlic cloves, very finely chopped
1/2 -1/3 cup of soft dry bread crumbs
1/4 teaspoon of ground thyme
1/2 teaspoon of ground rosemary
2 Tablespoons of finely chopped parsley
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 Tablespoons of Dijon mustard
salt & freshly ground pepper

Preparation
Preheat oven to 525° F.
Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a skillet and add the shallots and garlic. Cook for 2 minutes, do not allow the vegetables to color.
Remove the skillet from heat, add bread crumbs, thyme, rosemary, parsley, salt and pepper to taste.
Stir in egg then mustard. Stuffing should hold together in soft mounds.
Spread the remaining oil in a roasting pan, add the lamb and turn to coat on all sides.
Roast for 9 minutes, turning once so that the lamb browns on both sides. Remove from oven.
Spread the stuffing over the fat side of the meat. Return to oven and roast for 8 minutes for rare (internal temp: 130-135°). Cook an additional 5 minutes for well-done.
Remove from oven, turn broiler to med-high and broil for about 3 minutes or until crust turns golden brown.
Transfer to a warm platter and let sit in 200° oven for 5 minutes before carving.

Comments

  • River Rat,

    Sounds amazing! Where do you get all those l'accent et gouts and l'accent graves? :silly:

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • Richard Fl
    Richard Fl Posts: 8,297
    Be kind. This is an English based forum. LOL
  • Steve - accent aigu and accent grave! I'm on a Mac, and you can do them easily using the option key. Ç is c/option; the rest are dead keys: ´ is e/option and then e; ` is under the tilde; and ˆ is i/option, ¨ is u/option. I type in French often enough that I learned them. I used to have a French typewriter in college, back when there were typewriters. This is a little more cumbersome but at least the keyboard is a familiar one!

    The lamb was really good; the mustard and shallots added a lot of flavor to it, and the egg browned it nicely.

    Leslie
  • Richard Fl wrote:
    Be kind. This is an English based forum. LOL

    C'mon, I've seen French and Spanish menu items! We're a melting pot, right? ;) Besides, the recipe WAS in English! Picky picky...
  • Je suis impressed. Vous êtes un vrai gourmet...

    I think I said that right >>>> I am impressed - you are a real gourmet...
  • maXim
    maXim Posts: 468
    Steve,
    you can do them on a keyboard with a numeric keypad. Press down alt then its ASCII equivalent. For example:
    alt+130 = é
    alt+133 = à
    alt+135 = ç

    C'est aussi simple que ça!
  • mkc
    mkc Posts: 544
    Leslie,

    We just finished dinner and yet that makes me hungry all over again! We love lamb on the Egg. Did you use a bone-in section or was it boneless? How long did you cook after adding the stuffing since you did it at the lower temperature?
    Egging in Crossville, TN
  • Richard Fl
    Richard Fl Posts: 8,297
    I agree, however I was hoping Little Steven would translate his comments. LOL
  • MaXim, the way I do it looks easier. C'est pas trop simple comme ça! Is there an option key or its equivalent on a PC?
  • maXim
    maXim Posts: 468
    Not really...
    most francophone's simply use a French keyboard. Very easy to do in Windows. You can configure windows to use a French keyboard even if you don't have one. You just need to know how the keys are mapped.
  • Richard Fl wrote:
    I agree, however I was hoping Little Steven would translate his comments. LOL

    Richard, he was just referring to the accents over the vowels and under the "c."

    mkc wrote:
    Leslie,

    We just finished dinner and yet that makes me hungry all over again! We love lamb on the Egg. Did you use a bone-in section or was it boneless? How long did you cook after adding the stuffing since you did it at the lower temperature?

    Michelle, I cut the roast from a large leg of lamb, and it did have the bone in it. I cooked it for about twenty or twenty-five minutes, turning it once, before I added the stuffing. I thought I should extend the time for each step because it wasn't a rack, but a roast. I couldn't believe the short cooking times they gave. Also I have a hard time getting my egg up past 450° and keeping it there, but I thought that was just as well because of the thickness of the cut. The meat was quite rare, so I put it back after we cut some slices off to start with. My son and DIL and GD aren't keen on very rare lamb!

    My husband had made a couple of very nice baguettes on the egg the day before, so I was looking for something French to serve with one of them for dinner tonight. This recipe looked excellent and also worked on the egg!

    Edited to say: I just noticed that you asked how long I cooked the lamb AFTER I added the stuffing. It was probably about thirty or forty minutes but I wasn't really paying attention to the time, just to the Thermapen readings. At the end the temperature came up very quickly.

    Any good lamb recipes on your end?

    Leslie
  • Richard Fl
    Richard Fl Posts: 8,297
    AH! a French lesson, thanks.
  • maXim wrote:
    Not really...
    most francophone's simply use a French keyboard. Very easy to do in Windows. You can configure windows to use a French keyboard even if you don't have one. You just need to know how the keys are mapped.

    The problem is I mostly type in English. Plus, if you touchtype, re-adjusting to a French keyboard is a real hassle! Using one in France really slowed me down, since the keys aren't where your fingers think they should be. I think I could configure my Mac to give me a French keyboard, but by now those option combinations are almost automatic for me so this is easier.

    If I were writing a long report in French that might be different.

    Richard Fl wrote:
    AH! a French lesson, thanks.

    From MaXim, too!
  • RU Eggsperienced wrote:
    Je suis impressed. Vous êtes un vrai gourmet...

    I think I said that right >>>> I am impressed - you are a real gourmet...

    By the way, RU, I forgot to say "Merci!"

    We're having that lamb as leftovers tomorrow night!