Maple Lamb With Lemon Pepper Pesto Pumpkin

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A quick and easy restaurant quality meal. The lamb is glazed with a maple syrup based glaze, while the pumpkin is cooked in lemon pepper cream sauce and finished with dollops of pesto. This dish would probably be improved slightly with the addition of a side of vegetables such as beans or asparagus that had been stirred in the lamb and glaze juices before serving.

Ingredients

• Lamb
• Pumpkin
• Rocket
• Pesto & cream
• Salt & pepper
• Side vegetables (optional)

Maple Glaze

• Water
• Beef stock
• Maple syrup
• sugar
• mustard

Lemon Pepper Cream Sauce

• Cream
• Butter
• Lemon Pepper seasoning
• Salt
• Thyme

Directions

1. Mix the ingredients to make the sauces and glaze
2. Dice the pumpkin and roast in the oven
3. When the pumpkin is nearly cooked, pour the lemon pepper cream sauce over the pumpkin and put back in the oven to finish off
4. Fry the lamb
5. When the lamb is cooked, add the maple glaze to the lamb and reduce the glaze
6. Add the rocket to the fry pan to wilt it and absorb some of the flavour of the lamb and glaze juices
7. Warm the pesto and cream a little, but not enough to make it runny
8. Dollop blobs of pesto cream over the rocket and pumpkin to serve