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Lamb Burning Love – a great way to use up leftover roast lamb!

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Commissioned Recipe for Simply Beef & Lamb

Lamb Burning Love is a great way to use up your leftover roast lamb. So simple yet so delicious, this dish from my childhood is sure to be a hit with your family too!

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Today I’m sharing one of my mum’s delicious dishes, Lamb Burning Love.

Throughout my childhood, it was just called Burning Love (Brændende Kærlighed), but after a little research today, I discovered that this traditional Danish peasant dish is usually made with bacon, not lamb.

There is also another popular Danish peasant dish called “Bikesmad,” which is similar to hash made with leftover roasted meat and potatoes.

So it appears that when mum came to England, she did a bit of fusion cooking between these 2 dishes and came up with this anglicised version of Burning Love using lamb!

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I’ve been working with Simply Beef and Lamb as part of their #LivePeasant campaign to encourage home cooks to adopt a more rustic approach to cooking and enjoy the current trend for peasant food.

This Lamb Burning Love couldn’t be simpler. I think the best way to roast lamb is in a slow cooker, and it’s no coincidence that my 2 Ingredient Slow Cooker Roast Lamb is one of my top recipes.

There’s no fuss, no mess, and within a few hours, you have the most delicious succulent lamb.

After making Lamb, Vegetable and Lentil Soup with Cabbage (fab recipe) the other day, I just popped the rest of the lamb shoulder into the slow cooker in order to make this dish the following day.

I’ve usually just used traditionally roasted leftover lamb, but the slow-cooked lamb took the Lamb Burning Love to new heights of deliciousness!

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So you’re all wondering what exactly is Lamb Burning Love? Well, it’s simply fried onions and leftover roast lamb served on a bed of mashed potato.

Apparently, the name Burning Love stems from the fact that it had to be served piping hot, and the original dish dates back some 200 years.

We enjoy it with lashings of ketchup, but you might like to be more traditional and serve it with mint sauce, which would also go!

We hadn’t had this dish in far too long, but it’s definitely going back on the meal rota as it’s a winner on both taste and speed! The family’s plates seemed to be cleaned in minutes!

If you’re having roast lamb this Easter, then this is the perfect dish to use up those leftovers!

For more information about the #LivePeasant campaign, check out Simply Beef and Lamb on Facebook, plus you’ll find fellow bloggers’ #LivePeasant recipes in my post for One Pot Minced Beef Hotpot.

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Lamb Burning Love (Brændende Kærlighed) - leftover roast lamb, fried up with onions, served on a bed of mashed potatoes!

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Lamb Burning Love (Brændende Kærlighed) in serving dish on board with blue tea towel.
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Lamb Burning Love

Lamb Burning Love is the perfect quick and easy dish to use up leftover roast lamb. Fried onions and lamb sit on top of a bed of mashed potato, simple Danish inspired peasant food!
Course Main
Cuisine Danish
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 4
Author Camilla Hawkins

Ingredients

  • 1 Kg Potatoes peeled and quartered (even sized pieces)
  • 30 g Butter
  • Generous splash of milk
  • 2 tablespoon Olive oil
  • 270 g Leftover roast/slowcooked lamb leg or shoulder chopped (approx or whatever you have)
  • 4 Medium onions sliced
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper

Instructions

  • Cook the potatoes in boiling water until cooked (about 18 minutes).
  • Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat and fry the onions until starting to go golden.
  • Add the lamb, combine with the onions and fry for another 5 minutes or until heated through.
  • Mash the potatoes and beat in the butter, milk, salt and pepper.
  • Place the mash in a serving dish and top with the fried onions and lamb.
  • Serve at the table.

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  1. Alan

    Ive got half a leg of lamb left and been browsing the web for ideas of what to do with it when I came across your recipe. It sounds absolutely lovely and I’m going to try it, and I wanted to say thank you! I haven’t tried anything quite like this before – what a brilliant idea, nice and simple, and sounds really tasty!
    Big thanks to you!!!

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  2. Jenny

    I made this last night and it was a great success! When I was deciding if I would make it I thought it might be a bit plain, but it was delicious! And so simple! I served it with a side dish of vegetables mixed with crispy bacon which went very well with it. I will definitely make it again! Thank you for giving us the recipe.

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  4. Jan Smith

    Thinking of adding mushrooms ( that’s if you like them ) some chopped garlic & a squeeze of tomato puree, but then it wouldn’t be Burning Love would it!!!

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  5. Sid

    What an interesting take on a traditional meal. It sounds like your mom combined two traditional meals into one. I make both, the way my mom made them, but I might just try the lamb trick the next time I make some Lamb.

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  7. Lindy

    Hi Camilla,
    Thank you so much for slow cooker lamb absolutely delicious. Will now try tomorrow the above recipe which sounds
    wonderful too.

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  12. Richard Eldred Hawes

    I really like finding old traditional recipes and cooking them, they are often very tasty and filling

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  14. Diane Carey

    I’ve bookmarked this recipe. Lamb is my favourite meat, although I don’t have it very often and there are never any leftovers. But will be making it in the very near future. Looks yummy

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    • Camilla

      I had a long chat on the phone with mum and I think she just gave the dish this name as it was an easy way to refer to it, as she said, little did she know I’d be putting on my blog some decades later LOL:-)

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  22. Sally - Mycustardpie

    Seriously! I have a burning desire to cook something with such a poetic and evocative name! Plus it sounds just my kind of comfort food. Interesting to hear about your Danish roots – a cuisine I know very little about

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    • Camilla

      Snap Claire, we’re having turkkey too. Been in the freezer since after Christmas as a very cheap one came my way so now seemed like a good opportunity to use is up:-)

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  27. Linsy

    you create something new and exciting from leftovers its always a challenge and love your dish and nice presentation too.

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  28. Tori Gabriel

    I’ve never heard of this but it sounds delicious. I woild definitely serve it with mint sauce rather than ketchup though.

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    • Camilla

      Excellent Jenni – I’m so glad I did my research on this as all these years I never knew it wasn’t made with lamb, but then there aren’t many lambs in Denmark so makes sense that it was made with bacon!

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  31. Margot

    This sounds like a perfect comfort food, family recipes are the best!
    It would also be perfect for the Inheritance Recipes link-up (closing tomorrow).

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  32. Kerry Norris

    I love leftover recipe ideas as I hate waste. I’m pretty sure my daughter would like this so I’ll have to have a go at making it. X

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  33. Ness

    I love leftover dishes. I’ve never cooked a whole joint of lamb in the slow cooker before. I’ll have to give it a try.

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  34. Boastful Food

    I can smell the simmering lamb from across the waters. Wonderful recipe, Camilla! The mashers are a bonus!

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  35. Emma

    This sounds awesome Camilla. I love that’s it’s a bit of a fusion between two different dishes 🙂 your blog is a real melting pot of cultures!

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  36. Dom

    now that is one stunning dish! I adore how rich the lamb looks. My step-mum is Danish. I must ask her about this! Happy Easter x

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