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Lancashire Hot Pot
Serves 130 portions
Ingredients
- 10 kg sauté potatoes/sliced potatoes
- 10 fl oz veg oil
- 11 kg diced lamb
- 2 kg chopped onion
- 1.5 kg chopped carrots
- 1.5 kg chopped celery
- 250g tomato puree
- 4 pints water
- 40g beef stock (powder)
- 6 pints gravy
- seasoning
- 1x tbsp mint
- 125g melted butter
Method
- Heat oil and seal lamb in bratt pan. Add tomato puree.
- Add stock and simmer for 2/3 hours until lamb nearly cooked
- Add all vegetables and cook until soft
- Season and add mint and cook out for 2/3 minutes
- Thicken only if necessary
- Serve into gastronome tins
- Place sliced potatoes on top of each tin, brush with butter
- Cook in pre-heated oven 185°C for 30 minutes
- Probe and sprinkle with dry parsley and serve

Note from the BDA:
"We recommend this dish to be served with seasonal vegetables on the side to increase overall calorie content."
Nutritional Analysis
Lancashire Hotpot: Per portion (248g)
- Energy: 263 kcal/1099 KJ
- Protein: 18.2g
- Fat: 14.3g
- Saturates: 5.3g
- CHO: 16.5g
- Sugars: 2.6g
- Fibre: 0.7g
- Sodium: 252mg
Per 100g
- Energy: 106 kcal / 443 KJ
- Fat: 5.8g
- Saturates: 2.1g
- Protein: 7.4g
- Carbohydrate: 6.7g
- Sugars: 1.0g
- Fibre: 0.7g
- Sodium: 102mg

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