Slow-Cooked Lamb Massaman Curry. Ahhh just the title makes my mouth water. Just home from 5 days of sight-seeing in London, it was a toss-up whether I was looking forward to being back in my own bed, being welcomed home by our two cats, or making and eating this curry. Sorry cats, I did miss you, but the curry wins. What a week in London! We had so much fun! Gracey has been learning about the Great Fire of London at school and has wanted to go since then. Chris and I have only ever been there on business so we were looking forward to the eating, shopping and the famous sites. We must have covered 8 miles a day and there was so much to see during all that walking that I barely heard a moan from my five-year old (I don’t think we were ever going to manage a completely moan-free trek of that distance). If you haven’t been, then I totally recommend it! Quick list - here’s what we managed in 5 days:
Portabello Market - the worlds largest antique market - so much cool vintage stuffHummingbird bakery - the intention was to pick up some carrot cake or something for the next day’s breakfast, however I walked out armed with chocolate and salted caramel cupcakes that certainly didn’t last until breakfastTower of London - some serious bling in those crown jewelsThe Shard - Western Europe’s tallest building - the view at night was amazing! One of the cheaper apartments in this building will set you back a mere £50 millionMonument to the Great Fire of London - Gracey was a little disappointed to find no puddings for sale on Pudding LaneHarrods - Amongst the £40k children’s cars and the £25k bottles of whiskey - you can actually buy bars of gold here (about £275k in case you were interested)Buckingham Palace - we only got as far as the gates, but they were pretty gates…Hamley’s toy store - 7 floors of ‘I really want that mummy’ can grate just a littlePiccadilly Circus - 5 minutes from our hotel and soooo busyNelson’s Column - the iconic monument has stood for over 170 yearsBig Ben and the Houses of Parliament - amazing architectureSpeedboat ride on the Thames - so much fun whizzing around the Thames to James Bond musicScience Museum - So many hands-on activities for the kids and totally free (donations gratefully accepted though)Chinatown - They were preparing for Chinese New Year whilst we were there. It was so hard choosing which one of the 80 Chinese restaurants to eat in!Covent Garden - very pretty with nice shops and eateries plus street entertainers (Gracey enjoyed embarrassing me in the middle of a crowd by loudly questioning ‘mummy why is that man naked?’ - he was wearing shorts whilst lying on his bed of nails I might add!)
Oh, and I also got to spend half a day on a knife skills course at the brilliant Leith’s school of food and wine. I loved every minute of it, ok maybe not the bit where I was scooping out fish guts from my seabass, but otherwise it was great! Ok, maybe that wasn’t such a short list… Coming back to the curry now. I won’t go on too much further except to say this is a really good freezer recipe, and the homemade Massaman sauce comes together very quickly. My Slow-Cooked Lamb Massaman Curry is based on my Beef Massaman curry recipe, and works perfectly to get that fall-apart meat along with potatoes that are full of flavour from being cooked in the sauce. I use chillies in my recipe, but you can leave them out if you have anyone who doesn’t like it too spicy. If I’m making this for the whole family, I tend to leave the chillies out, then dish up the children’s portion first. Then I’ll add chopped chillies and cook them for a couple of minutes in the sauce before serving up to the adults. It doesn’t give quite the same depth of chilli heat, but is a good compromise. If you like slow cooker recipes then take a look at my slow cooker roundup for more ideas for what to make in your slow cooker.
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