Ingredients

  • 1 kg shoulder lamb chop
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • salt & pepper, to taste
  • 2 teaspoons curry powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons oil
  • 1 large onion, sliced
  • 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  • 4 tablespoons tomato ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 cup beef stock
  • 500 g pumpkin, peeled & chopped

Method

  • Trim chops of any fat.
  • Mix flour with salt& pepper, curry powder and ginger and coat chops with the mixture.
  • Heat half of the butter in a heavy based pan& brown lamb chops on both sides.
  • Remove to a plate.
  • Add remaining butter to pan and cook onion gently until soft.
  • Return lamb to pan.
  • Mix vinegar, sauces, sugar and stock and pour over lamb.
  • Cover, bring to simmer, reduce heat to low and simmer gently for 1 hour.
  • Skim any fat off surface and pumpkin.
  • Cover and cook for a further 30 minutes or until lamb chops and pumpkin are tender.
  • Serve with hot damper and mashed potato.