Cawl Recipe for Dydd Gwyl Dewi / St David's Day

Non Traditional Recipe for Cawl 

makes a large Saucepan full

• use x 2/3 lamb steaks (the sort meant for frying fast in a pan or grilling)  and cut up into small chunks about 2 cm across
• pair the fat off the lamb (usually around the steak) and set aside
• put the lamb cubes into a bowl and add a few squeezes of runny honey and stir around until each has a light honey coating
• put the lamb fat in a hot v large saucepan and fry it until it releases the fat in liquid form
• then throw in the lamb cubes and fry them hard and hot until they are golden and v slightly brown - try not to let them burn badly (where the honey 'catches' they might get quite brown), then set aside in a clean bowl and cover with foil - keep the pan and the fat!
• peel and cube a swede into v small pieces - ideally 1 cm across (swede takes ages to cook!)
• peel and cube 2/3 large potatoes into slightly larger cubes about 2cm across
• peel and cube  4-5 large carrots (or 7-8 small ones) into cubes a little larger than the swede
• wash and slice 4-5 leeks into 1 cm rounds
• add a little olive oil to the large pan which you cooked the lamb in which should have the lamb fat still in it and the juices and colour from the cooked meat
• and add the chopped swede to the pan and cook for 8 or so minutes, stirring around
• then add the carrots and stir around for a further 5 or so minutes
• then add the potatoes and stir around over the heat for a further 5 minutes
• then add MOST of the leeks to the pan (keep some of the greener leek slices aside - put them in the set aside bowl with the lamb if you wish) 
• stir the whole lot around in the lamb juice and fat until the leeks are softened and then add 2 pints of chicken stock and bring up to the boil
• add more stock or water if necessary
• cook until the swede finally feels like to might be cooked, maybe 45-50 minutes - try hard not to crush the potatoes when you stir the Cawl if they are looking crumbly 
• once the swede is cooked add the cooked lamb cubes and raw green leeks slices you set aside earlier
• cook for a further 5 minutes until the green leek slices are just cooked
• and serve with bread to dip and, if you wish, cheese crumbled on top of each bowl

Blasus Iawn! 

Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus i chi!