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

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

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!

Lamb Burning Love (Brændende Kærlighed) - Fab Food 4 All

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!

Lamb Burning Love (Brændende Kærlighed) - Fab Food 4 All

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!

Lamb Burning Love (Brændende Kærlighed) - Fab Food 4 All

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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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
Keyword easy, leftover lamb, simple
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 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.

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  1. Sid

    11/01/2020 at 2:18 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      11/01/2020 at 5:41 pm

      Thanks, yes it’s definitely mash up of 2 different traditional Danish dishes:-) I’m sure you’ll love it:-)

      Reply
  2. Charlie

    04/05/2019 at 12:16 pm

    Would also be great with gravy!
    I don’t do ketchup.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      04/05/2019 at 1:58 pm

      Yes, gravy would be good too:-)

      Reply
  3. Lindy

    21/04/2019 at 10:35 pm

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

    Reply
    • Camilla

      22/04/2019 at 12:37 am

      Thank you so much Lindy, glad you like it, it’s so easy isn’t it. I’m sure you’ll love Lamb Burning Love too:-)

      Reply
  4. M. Smullen

    29/03/2018 at 12:50 am

    I love the sound of this although we never ever have leftover lamb …..

    Reply
    • Camilla

      29/03/2018 at 11:00 am

      Worth buying a bigger piece for, believe me:-)

      Reply
  5. Leila Benhamida

    01/03/2018 at 5:56 pm

    Looks so good and delicious.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      02/03/2018 at 12:30 am

      Thanks Leila-)

      Reply
  6. Amy Fidler

    21/02/2017 at 9:15 am

    This looks like my kind of comfort food x

    Reply
  7. Helen Moulden

    12/02/2017 at 4:24 pm

    This looks so good! Great Sunday recipe :). We’ll be trying this one out.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      12/02/2017 at 7:27 pm

      Great Helen, it’s so good:-)

      Reply
  8. Richard Eldred Hawes

    11/02/2017 at 11:04 pm

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

    Reply
    • Camilla

      12/02/2017 at 12:08 am

      Yes, they have to be good to stand the test of time:-)

      Reply
  9. A S,Edinburgh

    29/01/2017 at 9:13 pm

    This looks lovely; traditional, tasty comfort food.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      30/01/2017 at 12:17 am

      It really is fab:-)

      Reply
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