Orange Braised Lamb

[Karonjulie]

Orange Braised Lamb

Serves 4

Ingredients:
500g diced lamb or beef (not a cheap cut unless you want to add cooking time)
1 onion
1 garlic clove
1pkt Hearty Beef Soup Mix
250g water
500g orange juice

Chop onion and garlic for 5 seconds on speed 7.    Add all ingredients and cook for 35 mins on 100 degrees on reverse and soft speed.

You can add choice of vegetables (baby potatoes, carrots etc into varoma  and place on TM Bowl or serve with mash potatoes.

members' comments

JD - We had this for lunch and as I thought, there was too much liquid for the amount of meat.  I did reduce the orange juice by 250 gms as I only had 320g of lamb backstrap and I thought this would compensate for the smaller quantity of meat.  However, it was still too much liquid.  I just served the meat with a slotted spoon, it wasn't a real problem.  Very tasty though and the expensive piece of meat I used was cooked to perfection.
I even steamed potatoes, carrots, beans and trombone in the varoma dish and to my surprise, they were cooked before the meat had finished so I can cut them into bigger pieces next time. Because I steamed the vegies I thought I had better cook the meat on the varoma setting instead of 100^o as per your recipe.
We will have this one again Karonjulie. I like recipes where you just throw everything in!

Note - Karonjulie reduced the amount of orange juice from 750 - 500g after this comment.

[Thermomixer]

Another easy and tasty recipe - great stuff.  Thanks

[judydawn]

I want to try this recipe tomorrow Karonjulie. It seems a lot of liquid for 500g of meat - does the packet of dry soup mix thicken all that liquid?

[judydawn]

We had this for lunch and as I thought, there was too much liquid for the amount of meat.  I did reduce the orange juice by 250gms as I only had 320g of lamb backstrap and I thought this would compensate for the smaller quantity of meat.  However, it was still too much liquid.  I just served the meat with a slotted spoon, it wasn't a real problem.  Very tasty though and the expensive piece of meat I used was cooked to perfection.

I even steamed potatoes, carrots, beans and trombone in the varoma dish and to my surprise, they were cooked before the meat had finished so I can cut them into bigger pieces next time. Because I steamed the vegies, I thought I had better cook the meat on the varoma setting instead of 100o as per your recipe.

We will have this one again Karonjulie. I like recipes where you just throw everything in!

[brazen20au]

what's a trombone? 

[brazen20au]

(obviously you wouldn't be steaming a musical instrument )

[judydawn]

It's a pumpkin!  Have you never heard of it in Canberra? 

[brazen20au]

i wondered if it might be but no, haven't ever heard that term before!

[Karonjulie]

Yes it its very liquid.   I think because we have it with mash potatoes it isn't really a problem with us as we like it more runny than thick.  I have reduced the orange juice from 750 go 500g in the recipe and I guess you could add 2 pkts of the beef soup to thicken it a bit more if you like the a thicker texture.

[Thermomixer]

and I guess you could add 2 pkts of the beef soup to thicken it a bit more if you like the a thicker texture.

I would be inclined to either leave out the water, or add some flour to thicken it, as the extra packet of soup may make it a bit strong?

If it was looking too thick near the end of cooking you could add some water.