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As part of our aim to encourage healthy eating and lifestyle choices, we bring you this easy to cook, healthy and delicious sticky lamb chops recipe.

This makes for a tasty Easter Sunday dish. Give it a try and let us know what you think. Happy cooking!

Sticky lamb chops

Prep time: 10 minutes                    Cooking time: 15 minutes                    Serves: 2

Ingredients:

• 6 French trimmed lamb chops – close to 600g
• 200g mixed-colour baby heritage carrots
• 8 cloves of garlic
• 3 oranges
• ½ a bunch of fresh thyme – 15g

Instructions:

• Prepare the lamb chops for cooking by scoring the fat (see tips on how), then season them with sea salt and black pepper.
• Next, line the chops up like a rack and sit them together fat edges down in a large shallow pan on a medium-high heat. Leave for 5 minutes to crisp up.
• Peel whole baby carrots and halve any larger ones and peel garlic cloves. Add the carrots and garlic to the pan, turning the carrots regularly.
• Gently turn the chops on to their sides, cook for 2 minutes on each side, or until golden.
  Look for a pink colour in the middle.
• Meanwhile, peel strips of zest from 1 orange. Sprinkle them into the pan with the thyme and toss it all together for around 30 seconds to get the flavours going.
• Remove the chops to a plate to rest, then squeeze the juice from all 3 oranges into the pan.
• Let the juice bubble and reduce the heat until sticky, quickly toss the lamb back in with its resting juices.
• Time to plate up.

Note:

Here is a video on how to score meat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pQm2axaPFQ