Hey guys,

Today I want to present you my recipe for the most delicious lamb chops that I cooked this week. All in all the dish is relatively easy to prepare and it usually makes your guests very happy.
In the following guide I will explain how to cook the meal in basically 3 easy steps plus side dishes...!

Before I start my apologies for the relatively low image quality - all photos were taken with an iPhone 5, as the battery of my Nikon was completely empty after a long day's trip.

Thinks to take into consideration before you start:

• I prepared the food for 4 persons and bought 16 chops, which gives about 200 grams per person. If the meat is too greasy you have to fillet it first. In this case, my chops were quite lean, so I skipped that part.
  
  
• If you want a sauce - and I always want a sauce! - I would recommend a port wine sauce, which complements the meat taste very well. In this case you should definitely start with it, as this might take some time (expect at least about 60-90 mins.):
  
  Just add about 0.5 liters of port wine in a pot and reduce it at medium level until most of the liquid has evaporated and you get a nice creamy sauce. In the end you just add salt and pepper. In this case, I served the sauce with a cream dispenser, which is optional, it just looks cool (as you can see below).
  
  

Preparing the lamb chops:

Step one:

First you have to sear the chops in an iron pan for about 2 minutes per side. Wait for the iron pan to get really, really hot before you add the meat. Optimally, they should sear until they get a nice roasted surface with brandings of the iron struts.

Step two:

Cover the ribs with a crust. To do so, just chop parsley and thyme finely, knead with butter, lemon zest, salt, pepper and breadcrumbs and cut it to slices (~0.5 cm thickness) and cover the chops with it.

Step three:

Place the chops on a grate in the preheated oven (circulating air at approx. 80 ° C or 176 ° F). As you can see, I use a barbeque thermometer, which helps me find the perfect cooking level. If you want the chops medium, it's 71 ° C or 160 ° F. Then just wait until the target temperature is reached.
That's basically everything regarding the meat...!

Side dishes:

While the meat is cooking in the oven you have enough time to prepare some side dishes. I made oven vegetables in this case:

Simply pour vegetables with olive oil, rosemary, thyme, pepper and salt into a bowl and cook until tender, but still with a little bit of bite. The easiest way is to have the oven vegetables already put into the oven before, as it takes probably a bit longer than the lamb.

In addition, I seared green asparagus with honey and balsamic acid in the pan:

To do this you roast a finely chopped onion in sunflower oil. Then you add the asparagus, I usually cut it into short pieces. Then add about two spoons of honey and caramelize the asparagus at high temperature. Season it with black balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper and keep it cooking for about 5-10 minutes on medium heat. The asparagus should still be a little crisp in the end.

Finally serve everything on a plate in whatever fashion you prefer!
et voilà – you’re done!




This is actually everything, as you see a relatively simple recipe, which takes only about 60 mins.


I hope you guys like it, please share your thoughts!