Tips for slow cooked mutton needed.
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| 1 | Sort of against my better judgement I have just been talked into buying a piece of leg mutton. The last time I cooked it I said, never again. So, I would appreciate hints and tips for doing it in the slow cooker. Thanks in anticipation. freesia - 2019-09-24 19:44:00 |
| 2 | I like mutton cooked with Middle Eastern or Turkish flavours. Cumin, onion, garlic, tomato paste, coriander seeds, lemon juice, plenty of salt. Make a paste for a marinade, marinate the mutton leg meat for two or three days, cook at a low heat for at least five hours, eight hours is better, or until very tender. davidt4 - 2019-09-24 19:58:00 |
| 3 | Must be a big slow cooker to fit a mutton leg in? smallwoods - 2019-09-24 21:39:00 |
| 4 | Thank you David, I will try that. How much liquid do you put in the cooker with it, if any? freesia - 2019-09-25 07:08:00 |
| 5 | Google a slow cooked lamb recipe, just cook your piece for longer than the lamb, put it on first thing in the morning, and let it cook away all day. Not fussed with all the flavours added to mutton, it should taste good without them, or maybe just some sliced onions under the roast, a bit of rosemary Edited by rainrain1 at 7:19 am, Wed 25 Sep rainrain1 - 2019-09-25 07:19:00 |
| 6 | Easy - low heat and long time. Was raised on mutton - love it when you can get it at an affordable price. jan2242 - 2019-09-25 09:44:00 |
| 7 | freesia wrote:
I wouldn't add any liquid to a slow cooker, but mine is quite old and I think the more modern ones operate at a higher temperature, so might need a little liquid. It also depends on how close-fitting the lid is, if the lid is loose then more moisture will escape. davidt4 - 2019-09-25 10:01:00 |
| 8 | Must say I only ever do the hocks in the slow cooker, I always just roast mutton in the oven rainrain1 - 2019-09-25 10:12:00 |
| 9 | I do not like the smell of it cooking so I am going to put it either in the laundry or the conservatory with the doors shut. freesia - 2019-09-25 10:32:00 |
| 10 | It smells divine rainrain1 - 2019-09-25 10:45:00 |
| 11 | ok. it's now swimming in a sea of onion, garlic, cumin, coriander, salt and tomato paste. I will slow cook it on , hmmmmm, Saturday. freesia - 2019-09-25 11:38:00 |
| 12 | Slow cooker? You'll stew it. lythande1 - 2019-09-25 12:10:00 |
| 13 | Where oh where are you getting mutton I absolutely love it and can not get it anywhere. blackhonker - 2019-09-25 23:40:00 |
| 14 | I would rub flavour all over it and cook it slowly in the oven in an oven bag with a small amount of water, and brown it for the last bit of time and make gravy while thats happening. Id cook hocks in an oven bag in the slow cooker, but not a huge lump of meat. articferrit - 2019-09-26 07:25:00 |
| 15 | Mad Butcher, Stoke in Nelson. $8.99 kg freesia - 2019-09-26 18:30:00 |
| 16 | blackhonker wrote: A side of mutton will be about $150, a leg around $75. smallwoods - 2019-09-26 22:27:00 |
| 17 | My Bro-in-law sent me a massive forequarter of mutton once quite fatty but really meaty too. From east coast high country. I rubbed with garlic lay on a bed of fresh bay leaves (a whole branch cut from our big Bay Tree) then roasted it slowly over charcoal for 6 hours. I collected nearly a litre of fat in the drip tray, but when done the bones could all be pulled out before carving and it was melt in your mouth tender lucky we had a big crowd for dinner they demolished that leg the roast wild pork and 2 roast chickens in one sitting. mmmmmmmmmmm beaker59 - 2019-09-28 14:37:00 |
| 18 | mmmmm....Love mutton. but as others say, where does one buy it nowdays. Never see it in supermarkets, so where does it go....Plain roasted in the oven, with flour and lemon pepper sprinkled on top korbo - 2019-09-28 14:53:00 |
| 19 | korbo wrote:
The average Kiwi has to have farming connections to get good meat these days I am lucky there's lots of wild ones in the pine forest where I go hunting from time to time I will get one or a farmer mate will give or sell me one. But I have to take the whole animal and kill and butcher it myself which I don't mind. beaker59 - 2019-09-28 15:06:00 |
| 20 | beaker59 wrote: samanya - 2019-09-28 15:47:00 |
| 21 | Roast mutton, some of the best food of my childhood. Out slaughtering with my father as a pre-schooler, "helping" him butchering outside, Mum slow roasting mutton. A sheep at a time, sometimes a half beefie home butchered for the freezer. Right up into my 20s the old man still did it all, we packaged for the freezer to save Mum the hassle. Fabulous. I grab mutton any time I see it, look for large hogget in preference. No slow cooker nonsense. The days of decent choices seem gone, everything is just lamb now, never did like lamb. Edited by morticia at 4:25 pm, Sat 28 Sep morticia - 2019-09-28 16:18:00 |
| 22 | My family lived on sheep meat, I think it was normal. samanya - 2019-09-28 16:25:00 |
| 23 | samanya wrote:
Back in the day when we fed the family by buying 5dollar sides of cull ewe I always looked for the fattest ones when you cooked the fat down to an acceptable level the remaining meat was the absolute best. same with chops roasted on a rack over a tray with a covering of onions tomatos and breadcrumbs. beaker59 - 2019-09-28 21:11:00 |
| 24 | Hi all. Well I did the mutton in the slow cooker for a little over 12 hours. meat fell off the bone, and was quite nice. I am actually going to make a big shepherds pie with it now. Thanks to you all for your help. freesia - 2019-09-30 12:02:00 |
| 25 | I would live on sheep meat too, if only they would kill me one, it's been a while I have liver coming in to cook tomorrow, but it's not for me> waa waa rainrain1 - 2019-09-30 18:19:00 |
| 26 | 5 hrs covered at 120 then 1/2 hr at 180 uncovered, fall off the bone every time pussy01 - 2019-10-01 19:52:00 |
| 27 | rainrain1 wrote: samanya - 2019-10-01 20:50:00 |
