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Origin
Puglia
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Description
Puglia's simplest and most Sunday lamb preparation: bone-in lamb shoulder or leg roasted directly on a bed of sliced potatoes, onion, and cherry tomatoes, with olive oil, white wine, and fresh rosemary. The lamb fat renders during roasting and bastes the potatoes from above; the tomato and onion provide moisture and sweetness at the pan base. The potatoes at the bottom absorb all the lamb dripping and become lacquered, soft inside and caramelised underneath. No further sauce is made — the pan juices are poured over at service.
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The Thread
—Virtually identical dish across the Adriatic: lamb on potato bed roasted together; Greek adds lemon where Pugliese uses tomato Greek
—Lamb roasted directly on vegetables in a single pan — Spanish uses suckling lamb (lechal) in clay; Pugliese uses shoulder in metal Spanish
—Lamb and vegetable one-pan roast in the wood oven — Eastern Mediterranean parallel with same Sunday-roast social function Turkish
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Flavour Context
Lamb fat-basted potatoes; rosemary and garlic aromatic; sweet tomato and onion base; pure, direct Sunday flavours
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