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Fragrant lamb and orzo
casserole

SERVES 4. HANDS-ON TIME 15 MIN,
SLOW COOKER TIME 7½ HOURS

The casserole can be left to
cook all day while you’re at work,
then when you get home all you
do is stir in the pasta and dinner
will be ready in an hour.

Cool, cover and chill any
MAKE
AHEAD leftovers for up to 3 days.
Reheat gently with an extra
splash of water if it’s looking dry.
Kefalograviera is a hard,
ROSS’S salty, Greek sheep’s cheese
TIP
– parmesan shavings or
crumbled feta will work too.

• 400g lamb leg steaks
• 400g tin chopped tomatoes
• 2 tbsp tomato purée
• 125ml beef stock
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 cloves
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• Handful finely chopped fresh
flatleaf parsley
• 125g orzo or risoni pasta
• 30g kefalograviera cheese,
crumbled (see Ross’s tip)
• Small handful fresh basil
or marjoram leaves
• Lemon wedges to serve

1 Heat your slow cooker to low.
ROSS DOBSON’S I use my slow cooker Trim off any fat from the lamb and
STORY to make healthy meals discard. Cut each lamb steak in half.
The Australian that are packed with 2 Put the tomatoes, tomato purée,
chef, food stylist flavour. And by stock, cinnamon, bay leaves, cloves,
and prolific ‘healthy’ I don’t mean oregano and parsley in the slow
cookbook author following fads. I find cooker. Season with salt and pepper
already has 13 inspiration in the and give it all a good stir. Add the
books to his freshness of Indian, lamb, nudging it into the sauce, then
name. When he’s cover and cook for 6½ hours.
Middle Eastern,
not writing, he’s 3 Stir in the orzo, re-cover and cook
kept busy as the Mediterranean for 1 hour until the lamb is very
chef/owner of and North African tender and the orzo is cooked.
two Sydney flavours. Clean chilli heat, aromatic herbs 4 Serve the casserole scattered
restaurants, and spices, full-throttle flavours and layered with the cheese and basil/marjoram,
Cafe at Lewers with lemon wedges on the side.
spice blends work so well in a slow cooker.
and The Union With little conscious effort, much of the food PER SERVING 393kcals, 15.4g fat
tapas bar. (6.6g saturated), 34.7g protein,
There’s never a I make in my slow cooker is also gluten-free, 27.2g carbs (5.4g sugars), 0.4g salt,
dull moment… vegan or vegetarian. ROSS DOBSON 3.4g fibre →