Red Cooked Lamb With Sweet Potatoes
Created by MsPia on July 22, 2014
- Servings: 8
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 80m
- Recipe #13259
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon oil (olive oil)
- 8 scallions, cut into 1-inch sections
- 8 garlic cloves, sliced
- 8 slices fresh ginger
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chili paste
- 1 teaspoon anise seed
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons rice wine
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 2 1/2 pounds lamb, cut into cubes
- 4 sweet potatoes, cut into cubes (2lb)
- 1/2 pound fresh spinach
How to Make
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Step 1: Heat a large heavy pot or Dutch oven over high heat. Add oil and heat until hot. Add scallions, garlic, ginger, cinnamon sticks, chili paste and aniseed; stir-fry until fragrant, about 15 seconds.
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Step 2: Add soy sauce rice wine and sugar. Pour in 5 cups of water and bring to a boil. Add lamb and return to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, partially cover, and simmer until the lamb is just tender, about 1 hour.
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Step 3: Add sweet potatoes and continue to cook, partially cover, until they are tender, about 20 minutes. Discard the ginger and cinnamon sticks.
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Step 4: Lightly mix in spinach. Cover and cooked until spinach has wilted, about 1 1/2 minutes. Ladle into soup plates and serve.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (314 g)
- Calories 539.2
- Total Fat - 34.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 14.8 g
- Cholesterol - 103.5 mg
- Sodium - 1165.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 29 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4.5 g
- Sugars - 3.7 g
- Protein - 28.4 g
- Calcium - 108.4 mg
- Iron - 4.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 17.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg