Croatian Cuisine

Barbecued rack of lamb

Cuisine: Croatian Prep time: 10 min(s) Cooking time: 15 min(s) Servings: Serves 3–4 Created by Tonci Farac

A lovely, simple way of cooking lamb on a spit-roast barbecue. Tonci’s tip on ageing the meat first is brilliant – it gives a richer, more flavoursome result. Afterwards, take the meat out of the fridge half an hour before cooking so it doesn’t suddenly leap from the cold of the fridge to the extreme heat of the barbie. 

You will need to begin this recipe two days ahead.

Ingredients

1 - lamb rack with outer layer of fat intact (be sure the butcher doesn’t remove it)
rosemary sprigs, broken into short pieces
sea salt

Preparation

Place the lamb on a wire rack and refrigerate uncovered for a couple of days to age the meat.

Make shallow cuts all over the outer layer of fat and stud with rosemary sprigs, leaving some of the leaves exposed. Rub liberally with sea salt.

Spit-roast over high heat to seal. Reduce the heat and continue to cook to your liking. Slice into cutlets and serve with roasted vegetables.

SBS cook’s notes
Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55–60 g, unless specified.

Croatian Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 14 Croatian Restaurants.

Restaurant Suburb
1. Maestral Seafood Restaurant Weston
2. De Bortoli Winery and Restaurant Dixons Creek
3. Original Balkan Restaurant Darlinghurst
4. Mediterraneo Charcoal Grill and Wine Bar Albert Park
5. Balkan Continental Restaurant Darlinghurst
6. Misho's Restaurant Taringa
7. Dalmatino Port Melbourne
8. Gianni's Restaurant Mount Hawthorn
9. Morska Vila Henley Beach
10. Katarina Zrinski Restaurant Footscray
   
15 Aug 2012 10:02 AEST
Megan
NSW
BBQ
Just watched the Season 2 Croation Episode 7 BBQ Rack of Lamb. Fantastic. Could you let me know where I can find one of the BBQ Tonci Farac cooked his rack of lamb on. Regards. stevenson17@bigpond.com
28 Jul 2012 04:57 AEST
Marica
Brisbane
rotisserie
Yum, the best would be with young goat, just like back home in Europe. To everyone looking for the bbq, I would say good luck to that! Many Europeans buy their supplies over there and either ship it or fly it back with them. You could make this with a regular spit roaster. Most bbqs these days have an attachment for spit roasting on them, you just need to buy the spear. I know personally, we built our own spit roaster, as have several of my friends.
01 Jul 2012 07:24 AEST
Ahmed. Alameddine
Chesterhill nsw
Lamb recipe
Love the program and the recipe just want to know when is the new season of food safri is back on again and where can I buy the BBQ from same as the one shown on food safri Croatian episode which featured the rack of lamb recipe looking forward to hear from you soon thank you ahmed.corona@live.com
29 Jun 2012 10:43 AEST
Howaida alameddine
Chester hill
Where can you buy this BBQ from
Loved the recipe and have searched everywhere on the net to try to find this BBQ but I could not find it thanks
12 Dec 2010 09:57 AEST
Debbie White
Port noarlunga south Adelaide
bbq
i would also like to know where to buy the bbq??debbiewhite51@bigpond.com
22 Aug 2010 09:20 AEST
greg russell
cowra
cooking with a croation pekka
i would like to purchase a croation pekka to cook with as i do a lot of outdoor cooking in campovens and the like if any one could help me find where to purchase one would be helpfull
27 Jul 2010 05:58 AEST
Adrian
Christchurch New Zealand
What is that BBQ??
Saw this on NZ FOOD TV the othernight and was well impressed with the results from the BBQ and was wondering what was the BBQ?? Cheers Adrian adline@clear.net.nz

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