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CRISPY LAMB CHOPS

CRISPY LAMB CHOPS

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Serves: 4

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The joy of these, particularly, is that they are wonderful eaten cold as well, their pink juiciness trapped within their eggy parmesan coating. If you don't have any stale bread to hand for making the breadcrumbs, then just split open some pitta breads, leave them a short while - even half an hour will do - to dry out and then tear them up and blitz them in a processor.

This makes a delicious Spring-time recipe. Browse even more delicious quick Spring recipes including Pea and Pesto Soup and Tarragon Salmon.

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Ingredients

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  • 10 lamb chop cutlets (with bone in)
  • 175 grams white breadcrumbs
  • 10 grams Parmesan cheese (grated)
  • 2 large eggs (beaten with salt and pepper)
  • salt
  • pepper
  • olive oil (for frying (not extra virgin))
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Method

  1. Remove the thick layer of fat from around the edge of each little chop, either by tearing it off by hand, or with a pair of scissors. Be careful not to lose the shape of the chop, though, or it will fall to pieces on frying.
  2. Layer the chops between two sheets of clingfilm, and beat them vigorously with a mallet or rolling pin so that they are flattened a little.
  3. Then, in a wide, shallow bowl, combine the breadcrumbs and parmesan, and put the seasoned eggs in another bowl.
  4. Pour some olive oil into a frying pan, to come about 1cm deep, and put it on the heat. Dip the lamb chops first in the eggy mixture and then press them well in the cheese and breadcrumbs before frying them in the hot oil. Cook the chops for about 3 minutes each side: they should be a deep golden brown and crunchy outside, within a still tender pink.
  5. Eat them as they are, left to get to room temperature or even cold: there is no way these are anything less than compulsively delicious.

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  • Have seen this yesterday over TV.. Will try it out soon.. Anyone tested in?

    Posted by gopituty on 21st Jun 2011 at 12.56

  • I've used this for pork chops instead of lamb and it's really yummy. My hubby who doesn't normally like pork chops polished off the whole thing.

    Posted by vixentasha on 25th Oct 2011 at 16.03