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!
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 potato.
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!
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!
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 its 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 do check out Simply Beef and Lamb on Facebook plus you’ll find fellow blogger’s #LivePeasant recipes in my post for One Pot Minced Beef Hotpot.
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NB: This is a commissioned post for Simply Beef & Lamb.
Lamb Burning Love
Ingredients
- 1 Kg Potatoes peeled and quartered (even sized pieces)
- 30 g Butter
- Generous splash of milk
- 2 tablespoon Rapeseed 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.
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
Camilla
Thanks Diane, it’s worth doing any extra big joint just to make this:-)
Maya Russell
That looks SO delicious and perfect to use up left over lamb.
Camilla
Thanks Maya, it really is delicious:-)
Rich Tyler
This looks right up my street, yummy! 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Rich, hope you try it:-)
Pebble Soup
looks like the perfect #inheritancerecipe & has all the right ingredients including love
Camilla
Thanks Solange:-)
Patty Haxton Anderson
Sounds so delicious!
Camilla
Thanks Patty-)
peter @feedyoursoultoo
This is total comfort food. i love looking up the history. How interesting that “you made it wrong all these years”. This is a good wrong!
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:-)
Debra @ Bowl Me Over
Looks delicious! I love a great comfort meal and am such a fan of remaking leftovers.
Camilla
Thanks Debra, yes leftovers make the best meals:-)
Zena's Suitcase
This sounds like great comfort food to me. I don’t do enough with lamb but I can see this becoming a favourite very quickly
Camilla
Thansk Zena, yes I think this dish should be in everyone’s repertoire-)
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
Camilla
LOL chanks Sally, it really is pure comfort food:-)
Gingey Bites
Yummy, I love leftovers! I could eat a scoop of this right now! 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Alex, it is rather fab:-)