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Kuurdak
Lamb fried in its own tail fat with onion and potato.
5 servings · 80 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 5 servings.
- 1 kg Lamb, meat and offal
- 200 g Lamb tail fat
- 4 piece Onions
- 600 g Potatoes
- 4 clove Garlic
- 1 tbsp Cumin
- 40 g Coriander
- 4 piece Flatbread, to serve
- to taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Dice the tail fat and render it in a cauldron to golden crackling.
- Lift out the crackling with a slotted spoon and set it aside; it goes back at the very end.
- Cut the meat into walnut-sized pieces and fry it in batches to a dark crust.
- Return all the meat to the pot, salt it, add the cumin and cover it for fifteen minutes.
- Add the onion in thick half-moons and fry until it turns translucent.
- Add the potatoes in large pieces and cook twenty minutes more, covered.
- Return the crackling, add the garlic and coriander and serve it straight from the pot with bread.
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