Lamb cutlets with mint, chilli and golden potatoes
If you put your halved baby potatoes on to steam before you get started on the lamb chops, you can fairly effortlessly rely on a proper meat-and-potato supper in around 20 minutes (plus a little marinading time). Steaming the potatoes is, for me, an important stipulation: a steamed spud is a sweet spud; more than that, cooked this way, rather than by boiling, the potatoes are dry when done, which makes them easy to fry to crisp bronzedness.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 7 of 8 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Lamb | 100g cooked | 294 |
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Celery | 1 stalk (40g) | 6 |
| Mint | 2 tbsp fresh (3g) | 2 |
| Parsley | 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) | 1 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Peppermint | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 500g/1lb 2oz baby new potatoes
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- ½ tsp dried chilli
- 1 tsp dried mint
- ½ tsp celery salt
- 8 lamb cutlets, preferably organic, trimmed of fat
- 100g/3½oz rocket
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh mint