Pulled lamb shoulder with sticky pomegranate glaze

Pulled lamb shoulder with sticky pomegranate glaze

Cooking the meat really slowly in fruit juice makes it meltingly tender, and the juices double up as a sweet glaze

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 5 hrs

plus marinating
Freezable

Gluten-free

Method

  1. Put the garlic, cinnamon, cumin, oregano and lemon in a blender with 1 tsp salt and 2 tsp black pepper. Blend until smooth. 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.
  2. 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 hrs.
  3. 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 mins. Meanwhile, bubble the cooking liquid over a high heat until reduced, thick and syrupy - this may take up to 30 mins.
  4. 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.

PER SERVING

668 kcalories, protein 46.0g, carbohydrate 33.0g, fat 39.0 g, saturated fat 19.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 32.0g, salt 1.3 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2013.

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  • 03 January 2013

    Julie Bahrain rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Didn't quite get the sticky glaze right and had a burnt on mess on the roasting tin but the lamb was very tasty and went well with the couscous and salad as per Moroccan feast Good Food mag Jan 2013.

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  • 03 January 2013

    Natalie Phillips rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Delicious! Went down a treat on New Years eve with all my friends, will definitely be making it again soon.

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  • 06 January 2013

    Fi Morris rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This made a fantastic New Years Eve dinner.

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  • 06 January 2013

    Andie GF rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Great recipe, but I am still cleaning the sticky, burnt glaze from my baking dish, any suggestions? Would definitely do again, but next time would line the tray with foil for the last 1/2hr (after adding the reduced glaze).

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  • 20 January 2013

    pwhyton rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Cooked as an alternative to my normal roast lamb and so glad I did as its truly wonderful. Bags of flavour and leftovers excellent cold. Served it with the apricot couscous on the site.

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  • 21 January 2013

    Sue Hibberd rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Delicious and easy. Used a whole leg of lamb which I had in the freezer and it worked very well. Went with mashed potatoes not couscous but still great.

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  • 27 January 2013

    Hjroy commented on this recipe

    This was a brilliant for a big New Year's Eve party. Very easy to cook really except I found the sticky glaze very hard and so improvised by adding brown sugar and making it a sweet gravy and cooking it in that for an extra hour on a low heat. It worked a treat and seemed to be veteran tasty to all. I also went for the 48 hour marinade time which I think made a difference. It was part of a stupendous bring and share buffet so I did not do much else to accompany it except for some simple couscous and a yogurt and pomegranate dip. I would really recommend doing this... Don't be out off by the time or anything!

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  • 08 February 2013

    Alex Jo commented on this recipe

    I'm planning on trying this one for a dinner party at the weekend, it looks lovely... Can anyone tell me how strong the lemon is in this recipe? After reading, it looks like you blend a whole lemon? And one of my guests isn't too keen on them!

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  • 18 February 2013

    Joanne rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Gorgeous! Made this weekend for friends as part of the Moroccan buffet in the Jan 2013 magazine. Was amazing. I added some cornflower to help thicken the sauce and it was fine, a brilliant and dead easy dish that's packed with flavour

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  • 18 February 2013

    Joanne commented on this recipe

    Gorgeous! Made this weekend for friends as part of the Moroccan buffet in the Jan 2013 magazine. Was amazing. I added some cornflower to help thicken the sauce and it was fine, a brilliant and dead easy dish that's packed with flavour

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  • 03 March 2013

    Liezel rated and commented on this recipe

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    A little effort, but absolutely delicious

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  • 19 March 2013

    jones1 rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Really delicious. Agree that the sauce would take more than 30 mins to thicken. Poured mine on a bit too runny still and consequently it didn't stick to the lamb properly and although the onions were delicious and sticky the lamb wasn't. Meat still tasted beautiful though and was really tender

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  • 13 May 2013

    scootergirl52 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I made this for 8 people on Mothers Day. It was fantastic. I used double the receipe and had no problems. The syrup poured over at the end made the lamb sweet and succulent. I loved this receipe.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 20 mins

Cook time

Cook 5 hrs

plus marinating
Freezable

Gluten-free

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668 kcalories, protein 46.0g, carbohydrate 33.0g, fat 39.0 g, saturated fat 19.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 32.0g, salt 1.3 g

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