Keyword family meals, family recipes, lamb meatloaf, meatloaf, one pan meal
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour10 minutesminutes
Servings 6people
Author Ottolenghi SMIPLE
Cost £
Ingredients
1courgette, roughly chopped
1carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped
3tomatoes. 1 roughly chopped, 2 coarsely grated and skin discarded
500glamb mince, not too lean
4garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
80gpecorino, finely grated
50gfresh breadcrumbs
2large eggs
2tbsptomato paste
2tspground cumin
2tsp ground allspice
salt
Tahini sauce
100gtahini paste
3tsplemon juice
2tsp olive oil
Instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 190C/375F and grease a 20cm x 10cm loaf tin with a little oil.
Into a food processor, add the courgette, onion, carrot and chopped tomato and blitz until it looks a bit like the texture of the mince.Next, transfer to a sieve, set over of bowl, and squeeze out as much liquid as possible.Put the vegetables into a large bowl, then add the lamb, 2 garlic cloves, the pecorino, breadcrumbs, eggs, tomato paste, spices and a tsp of salt.Now, using your hands, combine the mix, then transfer to a loaf ti or similar and place in a high-sided baking dish. Slowly pour boiling water into this dish until it comes halfway up the sides of the loaf tin. Bake for 1hr 10mins until golden brown.
Tahini sauce
In a bowl add the tahini, one garlic clove, 2 tbsps of lemon juice, 1/4 tsp salt and slowly whisk in 80 ml of water until it's a smooth sauce. Set aside.
Grated tomato
In a bowl, grate 2 tomatoes (you can add a squeeze of lemon and season if you want).
Serve
Once the meatloaf is cooked, lift the loaf tin out of its water bath and leave to cool for 10 mins.Pour off any liquid and fat in the loaf tin, then transfer the meatloaf to a platter. Pour the tahini sauce over the meatloaf, followed by the tomatoes. Serve.