What are Lamb Lollipops?

Lamb Lollipops are basically deboned lamb chops, rolled on a skewer. You can either buy them ready-made, or buy deboned lamb ribs and roll your own and push a skewer through.

Ingredients

• 1 kg Eureka Mills Easy Home Pizza Base Mix

  • 80 grams of oil

  • 600 grams of water (to prepare the flatbreads).

• 500 g Lamb Lollipops or Pinwheels.
  Alternatively: 1 kg deboned Lamb Ribs

• 6 Tbsp Let’s Cook Bazil Pesto

• 6 Tbsp Mayonnaise

• 180g Meze Halloumi Cheese

• 200g Meze mini mozzarella balls

• 100g Artichokes

• 20g PnP Let’s Cook Rosemary

• Mint leaves for garnish

• Salt and pepper

How to make the Flatbreads

1. Mix together the Eureka Mills Pizza Home Mix and Yeast sachet (included in the Easy Home Mix).

2. For the best consistency, first add half of the water, mix, and then add rest of water and mix thoroughly.

3. Add the oil and mix. Do not knead the dough.

4. Place the dough in a mixing bowl, cover with a dish cloth and let the dough rise for 30 minutes.

5. Separate the dough into eight equal-sized (200 gram) balls and roll each ball our with a rolling pin, to the desired thickness into a flat bread shape.

6. Prick each base with a fork several times. Let the flatbreads rise a second time

7. Grill on the skottel braai or bake in the even at 250°C for 10-15 minutes (depending on base thickness).

The Roasted Dad Tip: If you have cooked bases without toppings) left over, place in an airtight bag and freeze for up to 3 months.

How to make the Lamb Lollipops and Halloumi Skewers

If you are making the lamb pinwheels or lamb lollipops yourself:

1. Slice the deboned lamb rib into strips and marinate them in rosemary and olive oil with salt and pepper. Once marinated, roll the strips and push a skewer through.

2. Braai or grill the lamb lollipops or pinwheels until done to your liking (I recommend to medium-rare).
   I used my Instant Vortex Plus Air Fryer for this recipe on 195 C for 20 minutes.

3. Push a skewer through the halloumi cheese as well and braai or grill these too.

Assembling the Dish

1. Mix six table spoons of pesto and with six tablespoons of mayonnaise to make the sauce.

2. Assemble your bread with the pesto/mayo sauce, lamb lollipops, halloumi skewers, artichokes, mozzarella and mint leaves as shown on the video below.

3. For a finishing touch, use a blow torch to melt the mozzarella.

Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!

About Shawn Godfrey

Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.

Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.

It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.

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