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.
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!!!
Camilla
No, it wouldn’t but if you enjoy it, it doesn’t really matter does it:-)
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.
Camilla
Thanks, yes it’s definitely mash up of 2 different traditional Danish dishes:-) I’m sure you’ll love it:-)
Charlie
Would also be great with gravy!
I don’t do ketchup.
Camilla
Yes, gravy would be good too:-)
Lindy
Hi Camilla,
Thank you so much for slow cooker lamb absolutely delicious. Will now try tomorrow the above recipe which sounds
wonderful too.
Camilla
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:-)
M. Smullen
I love the sound of this although we never ever have leftover lamb …..
Camilla
Worth buying a bigger piece for, believe me:-)
Leila Benhamida
Looks so good and delicious.
Camilla
Thanks Leila-)
Amy Fidler
This looks like my kind of comfort food x
Helen Moulden
This looks so good! Great Sunday recipe :). We’ll be trying this one out.
Camilla
Great Helen, it’s so good:-)
Richard Eldred Hawes
I really like finding old traditional recipes and cooking them, they are often very tasty and filling
Camilla
Yes, they have to be good to stand the test of time:-)
A S,Edinburgh
This looks lovely; traditional, tasty comfort food.
Camilla
It really is fab:-)