Juicy lamb ribs baked with onions, potatoes and spices - this is an excellent French cuisine dish that came to us from Burgundy. It is difficult and time-consuming to prepare, but the end result is worth it.
Ingredients:
- 0.8 kg of lamb ribs;
- 1 kg of medium potatoes;
- 6 onions;
- 1.5 liters of chicken broth;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- bay leaves;
- sunflower oil (for frying);
- thyme, black pepper, salt.
Preparation:
- Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into slices 3-4 mm thick.
- Peel and wash the whole onion. Cut 2 onions into large slices, and 4 into rings.
- Put the prepared vegetables in a bowl, cover with cold water and set aside for a while.
- Wash and dry the ribs. Gently cut the meat that does not belong to the serving piece, cleaning the bone with a knife. This procedure will make the dish more correct, beautiful and original.
- Heat a small amount of oil in a skillet.
- Peel the chives, wash and squeeze through the garlic.
- Put the meat trimmings in hot oil and fry until dark golden brown. Then drain the excess fat from the pan, and add the onion wedges, crushed garlic, bay leaves and thyme to the remaining meat. Mix all this and fry a little, then add a small amount of broth and simmer, reducing the heat.
- In the meantime, take another skillet, pour oil into it and heat it up. Put the peeled ribs in hot oil, season them with pepper and salt and fry until golden brown.
- After the fried ribs, transfer to the frying pan to the meat scraps, pour the broth again (about the middle of the piece) and simmer over low heat.
- Put all the onion rings in the butter from under the ribs, season them with salt, pepper and thyme, add a little broth and simmer until soft.
- Take a rectangular baking dish, grease with oil, lay out ½ part of the chopped potatoes in an even layer.
- Cover the potatoes with ½ part of the stewed onion. Put the stewed ribs on top, cover the ribs with onions again, and the onions with potatoes.
- Sprinkle the last layer with plenty of salt and pepper, top up the contents of the form with the remaining broth, tighten with foil and place for 2 hours in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
- 10-15 minutes before cooking, the foil must be removed so that the dish is baked and browned.
- Pour the finished lamb ribs with onions and potatoes in portions on plates, serve with fresh vegetables.