Fricassée Dagneau Bourguignonne Burgundy Lamb Fricassee Recipes

LAMB FRICASSEE

Steps:

• Cut the lamb in portions.
• Melt a tablespoon of butter in a pot and brown the lamb in it.
• Strain excess fat. Take out the lamb.
• Add the rest of the butter, salt& pepper, the lettuce, the onions and the lamb.
• Cover and simmer for about 1 hours Stir.
• Don't fret about not having any water in the stew. The veggies will provide it as they cook.
• Prepare the avgolemono sauce, by beating together the eggs, lemon juice and flour (I use about 2 tsp).
• Just before serving, pour the avgolemono in the pot, simmer lightly and serve hot.
• Note: With 2 - 3 (2 - 3 lbs) heads of lettuce and 3 lbs of green onions, you will need a pretty big pot to hold all the chopped veggies. These will cook down to half the raw amount.

GREEK FRICASSEE OF LAMB

Steps:

• In a large Dutch Oven, heat the olive oil till smoking and in it brown the pieces of lamb (you may have to do this in 2-3 batches) until golden-brown all over.
• When all the pieces are browned add onion, garlic, water and wine (you could use just water if you wanted to), salt and pepper to taste, and simmer for 1 1/2 hours, or until meat is very tender.
• Add lettuce and dill. You may have to cram it into the pot but it will reduce to practically nothing. Put the lid on the Dutch Oven and cook for 8 minutes. Remove lid, stir carefully not to break up meat and cook another 2 minutes. Turn off heat.
• In a large, heatproof bowl, whisk together eggs, cornstarch, lemon juice and a little salt and pepper to taste (remember, there is more in the pot).
• With a ladle, remove ladlefuls of the cooking liquid the meat and lettuce have cooked in and VERY slowly whisk it into the egg/lemon mixture. Keep doing this until, whisking all the while, until you have incorporated most of your cooking liquid - this tempers the egg-lemon sauce so it won't curdle when added to your lamb.
• Pour all the sauce into the pot, covering the lamb and lettuce. Turn heat up to medium-high and just bring to the boil. Cook for 1-2 minutes.
• Dinner is ready. Have lots of crusty bread around to sop up the delicious avgolemono sauce.

LAMB FRICASSEE WITH ENDIVES

Steps:

• Chop onions in chopper until finely ground. The more chopped the better.
• Wash lamb chops and set aside
• Place butter into pot and let melt entirely.
• Add onion to butter and let simmer for a few minutes.
• Place lamb chops flat in pot, do not overlap.
• Let lamb chops brown on one side then flip. Lightly salt and pepper the exposed side.
• Let other side brown and flip again. Lightly salt and pepper the exposed side.
• Once both sides are browned fairly well (about fifteen minutes of cooking at medium heat) add the parsley and dill to the mixture. (Don't be afraid to add more dill and parsley than listed).
• Add water to cover the chops and stir mixture lightly.
• Let mixture sit covered at medium/low heat for about two hours or until lamb is cooked. (add water if mixture gets too low).
• Once lamb is cooked, add cleaned endive to pot with two to three cups of water.
• Let endives boil until tender (about 45 minutes).
• Once endives are tender, separate egg whites from yolks. Do not discard yolks, and juice lemons.
• Beat egg whites in mixer until resembles meringue, add yolks to whites and beat for a few seconds.
• Add lemon juice to mixture while beating, then add two ladle fulls of liquid from pot to mixture and beat.
• After all is whipped, add to pot and stir.
• Take off heat, and serve.
• Add salt and lemon to taste.

FRICASSéE D'AGNEAU BOURGUIGNONNE (BURGUNDY LAMB FRICASSEE

Steps:

• In a skillet with a lid, brown the lamb pieces 5 minute Add flour, onion and garlic, stir 2 to 3 minutes.
• Then moisten with the broth and wine.
• Add the bouquet garni, salt and pepper to taste.
• Cover and cook over medium heat 45 minute.
• Meanwhile, slice the mushrooms, sauté 5 minutes in a pan with the lardons.
• Add this mixture to the pan 15 minutes before the end of cooking.
• Adjust seasoning if necessary.
• Remove the bouquet garni.
• Arrange on serving platter. Serve with fresh tagliatelle.