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Slow-Cooked Lamb with Sugar Free Mint Sauce

Slow Cooked Lamb with Sugar Free Mint Sauce | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, tender, melt-in-your-mouth lamb served alongside a sugar free sweet-sour fresh mint sauce - this is an impressive Easter recipe that takes just a few mins of prep time and is easy on the purse-strings! #sugarfree #easter

Lamb. An Easter specialty. The traditional centrepiece on Easter Sunday. Cooked right, it is melt-in-your-mouth tender and delicious, and here in the UK at least, it is usually accompanied by a sweet and sour fresh mint sauce. It’s a match made in heaven.

Slow Cooked Lamb with Sugar Free Mint Sauce | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, tender, melt-in-your-mouth lamb served alongside a sugar free sweet-sour fresh mint sauce - this is an impressive Easter recipe that takes just a few mins of prep time and is easy on the purse-strings! #sugarfree #easter

I wanted to stick with tradition this year. So here is my Easter lamb recipe. The one I will always go back to in the spring, whether it is on Easter Sunday or not. The lamb is cooked for 6-8 hours, making it super soft and yummy. It has a very simple herb rub, making it a really easy and quick dish to put together. And I discovered, much to my wallet’s joy, that it can be just as successful using the less popular and much cheaper mutton. Slow-cooked, mutton tastes exactly like lamb, but is much more economical (and ecological!).

Slow Cooked Lamb with Sugar Free Mint Sauce | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, tender, melt-in-your-mouth lamb served alongside a sugar free sweet-sour fresh mint sauce - this is an impressive Easter recipe that takes just a few mins of prep time and is easy on the purse-strings! #sugarfree #easter

And the sauce – that sweet and sour sharpness that beautifully complements the meat. Usually high in sugar, my version is totally sugar free, super easy and takes literally seconds to make.

Slow Cooked Lamb with Sugar Free Mint Sauce | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, tender, melt-in-your-mouth lamb served alongside a sugar free sweet-sour fresh mint sauce - this is an impressive Easter recipe that takes just a few mins of prep time and is easy on the purse-strings! #sugarfree #easter

So for a low-fuss, minimal-prep, sweet-and-delicious healthy Easter lunch that is sure to impress but isn’t too hard on the budget, this is my go-to. I hope it will become yours, too.

Slow Cooked Lamb with Sugar Free Mint Sauce | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, tender, melt-in-your-mouth lamb served alongside a sugar free sweet-sour fresh mint sauce - this is an impressive Easter recipe that takes just a few mins of prep time and is easy on the purse-strings! #sugarfree #easter

Look out for the recipe for the Parmesan-coated swede fries we served this with – they will be on the website tomorrow!

Slow-Cooked Lamb with Sugar Free Mint Sauce
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
6 hrs
Total Time
6 hrs 5 mins
 

A delicious Easter (or general springtime) lunch. Soft, tender, delicious, and with a gorgeous sugar free sweet-sour fresh mint sauce. It takes only a few minutes to prep and is gentle on the pursestrings, especially if you swap the lamb for mutton!

Course: Celebration, Dinner, Easter, Entertaining, Holiday, Main Course, March, Sauce, Seasonal, Spring
Servings: 8 -10 people
Author: Raising Sugar Free Kids
Ingredients
  • 1-1.5 kg lamb shoulder or leg (or mutton leg)
  • 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
  • 4 tbsp fresh thyme
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • salt & pepper
For the mint sauce:
  • 30 -50g (about 1-1 and 3/4 oz) fresh mint (1 large bunch) leaves picked and stalks discarded (or add to the lamb for a bit more flavour)
  • 4 tbsp apple cider vinegar or red/white wine vinegar, or to taste
  • 2-3 tsp xylitol or 1-2 drops liquid stevia, or to taste
  • 4 tbsp boiling water
Instructions
  1. Brown the lamb all over in a hot pan or a hob-safe slow cooker insert for a few mins. This is totally optional, but gets a nice colour and deeper flavour if you have time to do it.

  2. Place the lamb in your slow cooker and add the fresh herbs. Pour over the olive oil, season, then pour in a little water (no more than 1/2 cup). Cook on Low for 6-8 hours.

  3. To cook in the oven, place lamb in a lidded stockpot/casserole pot (brown for more flavour if you like), add the herbs, olive oil, seasoning and a little water (about 3/4 cup) and cook in an oven preheated to 170C/325F/gas 3 for 5-6 hours.

  4. Trim off any larger bits of fat and allow to rest while you make the mint sauce. (The lamb will be falling apart at this point - don't worry, it's what you want!)

  5. For the sauce: blitz the mint leaves in a blender or food processor until shredded. Add the vinegar and xylitol or stevia, a little at a time, tasting constantly, until you feel you have the right balance of sweet and sour (you'll probably need most if not all of both, but you may prefer a little less vinegar or sweetener as a personal preference). Slowly drizzle in the boiling water until you have a liquidy sauce, pulsing to combine everything well.

  6. Serve the lamb with the mint sauce. A side salad or some steamed greens drizzled in olive oil, and/or some root vegetable fries or mash are all delicious accompaniments to this dish.

Slow Cooked Lamb with Sugar Free Mint Sauce | Raising Sugar Free Kids - delicious, tender, melt-in-your-mouth lamb served alongside a sugar free sweet-sour fresh mint sauce - this is an impressive Easter recipe that takes just a few mins of prep time and is easy on the purse-strings! #sugarfree #easter

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