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Easy Lamb Hotpot

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Adapted from an old family recipe, my easy peasy take on a Lancashire lamb hotpot can be done in one pot and only uses 5 ingredients…the perfect way to celebrate #LoveLambWeek.

Adapted from an old family recipe, my easy peasy Lancashire Lamb Hotpot is done in 1 pot, only uses 5 ingredients and needs just 10 minutes hands on time!

Easy Lamb Hotpot

This blog post contains affiliate links. This means if you click on a link and make a purchase, I may get a small commission, but you will not be charged a penny more. This post is a sponsored post, originally produced in conjunction with the ‘LAMB. Tasty Easy Fun’ campaign. This means I was compensated for creating this post. I only recommend products I like and think my readers will also like.

 

5 Ingredient Lamb Hotpot

As you know I am hugely passionate about lamb and just love cooking easy peasy meals with this fab meat. I have been working all year with the folk at the ‘LAMB. Tasty Easy Fun’ campaign and when they challenged me to make a lamb dish for Love Lamb Week using just 5 ingredients – I knew just what to make!

Easy Lamb Hotpot

 

Inspired by Jamie Oliver

Recently Jamie Oliver has been championing his latest book “5 Ingredients” (so my kind of book!) and in it he shares his recipe for 5 ingredient Lamb Hotpot – and well it reminded me that I just so happen to have my own recipe for a 5 ingredient lamb hotpot….though admittedly mine is totally different from Jamie’s recipe – as mine is as traditional as they come…

Easy Lamb Hotpot

 

An old family recipe

Handed down from my Lancashire great grandma (who sadly I never got to meet), to my grandma and then to my mum and finally to me, this is a pretty authentic Lancashire hotpot recipe – my Lancashire forebears would certainly not have been putting umami paste in their hotpot (as Jamie does!), but I can guarantee this hotpot is still fabulously tasty – the meltingly tender lamb and crispy, lamb flavoured potatoes are too die for!

In fact my Lancashire lamb hotpot comes with a lovely story attached: apparently in days gone by, the various members of the family might come home at different times… the hotpot would go into the oven in the morning and then, as the family returned for their dinner, they would help themselves to some hotpot, add a bit more water and return it to the oven to cook on a low heat until the next person came in – what a genius way to solve the problem of different family members eating at different times!

One Pot 5 Ingredient Easy Lamb Hotpot

 

Just 5 simple ingredients

The 5 ingredients in this Easy Lamb Hotpot are simply onions, carrots, lamb, lamb stock and potatoes – all good traditional British ingredients, which when put together produces the most fabulous dish (well OK plus a little oil, salt and pepper, but they don’t really count do they?). If you want to get a bit more fancy (and I often do), you can also add in some swede and some herbs (bay and thyme work really well) – but this is strictly optional.

 

Perfectly cooked potatoes

The trick to making a good lamb hotpot is to ensure the lamb and potatoes are cooked to perfection – the lamb needs a good slow cook to get it really tender and to ensure the potatoes are cooked through properly I cover the dish with a lid to begin with (the steam helps the potatoes cook), and then for the last half an hour, I turn up the oven and uncover the potatoes to ensure they are super brown and crispy on top.

Easy Lamb Hotpot

 

The perfect dish for lamb hotpot

I prefer to use a wide, shallow dish to make my hotpot – this means you get a really good ratio of potato to lamb and the top gets really crispy. However if you want to double the quantities below, and therefore need a deeper pan, I suggest you put a layer of potatoes halfway up as well as on top – this ensures everyone gets a good amount of potatoes, but the layer on top cooks well and isn’t too thick.

And just a quick note on cutting the potatoes – there is absolutely no need for a mandolin or food processor to cut these potatoes finely (another thing my ancestors wouldn’t have had!) – in fact, if you follow the recipe below, you really don’t need to cut them all that finely – I find a thickness of roughly 3mm (1/8inch) to be about right, but it doesn’t need to be perfect – quite a few of mine ended up thicker or thinner in the one I made for the photos and all the potatoes were cooked just perfectly!

Easy Lamb Hotpot

 

One pot lamb hotpot

To make this hotpot super duper easy, I’ve adapted the recipe so you can make this all in one pot. So long as you have a wide, shallow casserole that can go on the hob (ideally a cast iron casserole dish with a lid), or a similar shaped saucepan that can go in the oven, you can cook everything in the same pot – start it off on the hob and then pop it straight into the oven. If you don’t have a suitable cast iron pot/oven proof saucepan, then simply start this in a saucepan or frying pan on the hob and then transfer to an ovenproof dish for the oven part.

Easy Lamb Hotpot

 

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One Pot 5 Ingredient Easy Lamb Hotpot
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Easy Lamb Hotpot

Adapted from an old family recipe, my easy peasy Lancashire Lamb Hotpot is done in 1 pot, only uses 5 ingredients and needs just 10 minutes hands on time!
Prevent your screen from going dark
Course Main Course, Stew
Cuisine British
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings 4 people
Calories 310kcal
Author Eb Gargano

Ingredients

Metric - US Customary
  • 1 large onion diced
  • 2 large carrots cut into bitesize pieces
  • 600 g diced lamb (leg or shoulder both work well)
  • 500 ml lamb stock from a cube is fine
  • 3 large potatoes (roughly 500g / 1lb), cut into 3mm (⅛inch) slices
  • Plus a little oil, salt and pepper
  • Vegetables to serve optional

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 180C / 160C fan/ gas mark 4 / 350F.
  • In a large, wide cast iron pot (or ovenproof saucepan - see Note 1), add a little oil plus the onion and carrot. Cover with a lid and cook on a low heat for 5 minutes or until soft but not brown.
  • Turn the heat up and add the lamb, cook for 2-3 minutes until nicely browned. Add the lamb stock, plus a little salt and pepper and bring to the boil.
  • Turn the heat off and arrange the potato slices on the top so they slightly overlap. Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper then cover the pan with a lid (or foil) and place in the preheated oven for 1 hour.
  • After 1 hour turn the oven up to 220C / 200C / gas mark 7 / 425F and cook for a further 30 minutes, uncovered, or until the top is brown and the potatoes are completely cooked.
  • Serve just as it is or with extra vegetables.

Notes

  1. If you don’t have a suitable cast iron pot/ovenproof saucepan, then simply start this in a saucepan or frying pan on the hob and then transfer to an ovenproof dish for the oven part.
  2. Suitable for freezing.
  3. Nutrition information is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

Nutrition Facts
Easy Lamb Hotpot
Amount Per Serving
Calories 310 Calories from Fat 72
% Daily Value*
Fat 8g12%
Saturated Fat 2g13%
Cholesterol 97mg32%
Sodium 306mg13%
Potassium 1080mg31%
Carbohydrates 21g7%
Fiber 4g17%
Sugar 2g2%
Protein 36g72%
Vitamin A 5095IU102%
Vitamin C 18.1mg22%
Calcium 67mg7%
Iron 6.9mg38%
* % Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet
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Adapted from an old family recipe, my easy peasy take on a Lancashire lamb hotpot can be done in one pot and only uses 5 ingredients…the perfect way to celebrate #LoveLambWeek.

 

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This blog post contains affiliate links. This means if you click on a link and make a purchase, I may get a small commission, but you will not be charged a penny more. This post is a sponsored post, originally produced in conjunction with the ‘LAMB. Tasty Easy Fun’ campaign. This means I was compensated for creating this post. I only recommend products I like and think my readers will also like.

This is a collaborative post with the ‘LAMB. Tasty Easy Fun’ campaign. ‘LAMB. Tasty Easy Fun’ is an EU funded campaign which aims to increase the use of lamb in everyday cooking.  Lamb is often considered difficult to cook, expensive, or something to be saved for Sunday roasts. The aim of the campaign is to demonstrate just how tasty, easy and fun lamb is to cook with every day of the week!

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  1. Catherine says

    1st September 2017 at 6:05 pm

    Easy old school tasty food, nothing wrong with that!

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      1st September 2017 at 6:19 pm

      Exactly Catherine! I love experimenting with new and different things, of course…but I also love the old school classics…and they don’t come much more old school than this one!! Eb x

      Reply
      • Jillian from Lancashire says

        22nd March 2020 at 10:21 am

        Hi Eb, I love your ideas, and the family story behind this recipe makes it captivating as well as tasty. However, I reckon your Lancashire forebears must have been posher than mine, where leg of lamb would have been an absolute rarity and would have been roasted not diced and stewed. I use best end of neck and leave the bones in. This adds masses of extra flavour and gives a bit of extra body. If I’m buying the chops from a proper butcher, which is not so easy to find these days, I’ll get a lamb’s kidney while I’m there and chop that in too. As with your version, there’s no need to fry the meat – and the kidney really is optional. This is a much more “peasant food” version of a Lancashire Hotpot but it is no more work, and it’s tastier, less expensive and more fun to eat. This for information and conversation not criticism. Your recipes are fab!

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        • Eb Gargano says

          23rd March 2020 at 1:10 pm

          Haha – good point, I think my Lancashire forebears probably did use cheaper cuts back then! I have used leg as it’s easier to get hold of these days and is lovely and tender without having to cook it for too long. But I love the idea of using neck with bones in and lamb kidneys for extra flavour! So pleased to hear you like my other recipes too. Eb 🙂

          Reply
  2. Corina says

    3rd September 2017 at 6:40 am

    The fact that in the past your family would have taken this out of the oven then put it back in for the next person really does make this a great #CookOnceEatTwice meal Eb! I’ve never made a hotpot and didn’t like the meals my mum occasionally made when I was younger that had sliced potatoes on the top. The potatoes never seemed quite cooked enough and unfortunately it’s put me off. Like all these things though I should probably revisit it as your potatoes look beautifully cooked. Thanks for sharing with #CookOnceEatTwice x

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      4th September 2017 at 9:27 am

      Haha, yes – kind of an cook once eat many times kind of a meal 😀 And I assure you the potatoes in my hotpot are very much properly cooked…lovely and soft (but not falling apart) and deliciously crispy on top!! I do encourage you to revisit it, when the potatoes are cooked properly they are AMAZING!! Eb x

      Reply
  3. Monika Dabrowski says

    3rd September 2017 at 3:39 pm

    Such a wonderfully warming dish, and so few ingredients, which I love – sometimes less is more:)

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      4th September 2017 at 9:29 am

      Oh I heartily agree…I love playing with herbs, spices, chilli etc. but sometimes there is a time to pare it all back and let the flavours of the key ingredients shine through! Eb x

      Reply
  4. jacqui says

    3rd September 2017 at 9:49 pm

    Love tis recipe. I have a very similar hand me down recipe which goes one step further in easy peasy ness and doesn’t even involve browning the onions and meat. Just layering it in the dish and into the oven. It also has an extra potato layer, which absorbs some of the stock and breaks up a bit but I love it.

    These classic simple dishes are often the tastiest. and really umami paste in a hotpot! I doesnt need it.

    Thanks for linking up to this weeks #CookBlogShare

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      4th September 2017 at 9:35 am

      Oooh I would be very interested to do a side by side comparison of our two hotpots…I have always felt that the onions especially need that little bit of browning before going in the stew pot, but since I never try do it your way, I guess I don’t know for sure. With a long slow cook like this, they would certainly be soft enough (nothing worse than an undercooked onion – bleurgh!) I will have to try your way and see! I have definitely come around to the idea that, when slow cooked like this, meat doesn’t always need browning first. I have been doing a little bit of recipe testing with a chicken pie recently and discovered that I actually prefer the chicken unbrowned…it has a much better texture in the finished dish (think poached chicken) and the flavour is actually very similar. Eb x

      Reply
  5. Rebecca says

    5th September 2017 at 8:22 am

    Ooh this looks delicious Eb, I know my family will love this recipe, we’re all lamb lovers too.

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      5th September 2017 at 10:21 am

      Thanks Rebecca…it’s such a family friendly recipe – my two wolfed it down. Brings back memories of when I was a kid and my mum made this…always looked forward to it!! Eb x

      Reply
  6. Norman says

    28th November 2018 at 7:38 pm

    This was the most incredibly simple but flavorsome dish I’ve cooked in 35 years of marriage both my wife and my mother send their thanks xx

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      29th November 2018 at 12:15 pm

      Oh yay! I’m so pleased – thanks so much for this wonderful review 😀 Eb

      Reply
  7. dinesh says

    8th October 2020 at 12:06 pm

    It’s in the oven now, even a guy with my limited cooking skills can follow this. thank you

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      9th October 2020 at 9:47 am

      Yay – so happy to hear that – enjoy! Eb 🙂

      Reply
  8. Wendy says

    7th March 2021 at 8:34 am

    Could you make this with leftover roast lamb?

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      8th March 2021 at 9:39 am

      I’ve never tried this recipe with leftover roast lamb, but I can’t see why it wouldn’t work. Definitely worth a try! Eb 🙂

      Reply
  9. John Humphrey says

    27th November 2021 at 8:30 am

    Tried this last week as it was really cold outside, perfect, followed the recipe to the letter. Its all very well adding and trying to tweak with herbs and spices but this is a Lancashire Hot Pot and should stay as it is. Well that was a few weekks ago and guess what, its cold and wet outside so we will be having g the same again today. Thank you so much for the recipe

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      27th November 2021 at 9:24 am

      Hi John, so glad you liked the recipe! I do agree… It’s the perfect recipe when it’s cold and wet and miserable outside! Eb 🙂

      Reply

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