These slow-cooked lamb recipes are the centrepiece of your winter feast
- The best slow-cooked lamb recipes to cook this winter
- Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with rosemary pesto
- Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with black garlic and mint persillade
- Sarah Cicolini’s fusilli con ragù di agnello (fusilli with lamb ragù)
- Lamb korma
- Greg Malouf’s baharat lamb shoulder with onions and moghrabieh
- Phil Wood’s lamb with roast-apple chutney
- Roast lamb neck with kale, feta and dill
- Slow-cooked spiced lamb with prunes
- Guy Grossi’s abbacchio alla Romana
- Shane Delia’s 12-hour roast lamb with pistachio and green-olive tabbouleh
- Braised pumpkin and lamb neck
- Greek-style lamb shoulder and bean stew
- Lamb shanks baked in paper with olives and red wine
- Sean McConnell’s slow-roasted lamb shoulder with pistachios, pomegranate and vine leaves
- Paul Carmichael’s curried lamb leg
- Shawarma-spiced roast lamb leg with beetroot sauce
- Buttermilk-brined lamb shoulder with harissa
- Iranian-style lamb shoulder with cranberry and pistachio spiced rice
- Pinbone’s lamb shoulder ragù with gnocchetti
- Rick Shores’ slow roasted lamb shoulder with yellow bean, cumin and chilli
Lamb is the protein of choice when it comes to slow cooking. As always, it’s the secondary cuts that will be your saviour, provided you have a bit of time on your side. Whether you want to throw a lamb shoulder in the slow cooker or slow roast a lamb leg in the oven, a slow-cooked cut of lamb results in magnitudes of flavour.
Our lamb shoulder with Israeli couscous and labne delivers tender, fall-apart meat, as does Shane Delia’s recipe for 12-hour roast lamb shoulder with pistachio and green-olive tabbouleh. Plus, pasta master Sarah Cicolini’s fusilli with lamb ragù, heady with garlic and lemon rind, is not to be overlooked — and we recommend serving with plenty of cracked pepper.
We also have recipes such as a comforting Greek lamb stew and Iranian-style lamb shoulder on the bone served with spiced rice. There’s also lamb cooked slowly in stews, in braises, in curries – the hard bit will be deciding which lamb recipe for the slow cooker to choose.
The best slow-cooked lamb recipes to cook this winter

Calabrian chilli and lamb stracci pasta with striped napkin and cutlery.

Fennel spiced lamb ribs with goats curd tzatziki

slow-cooked lamb with rosemary pesto in baking dish.
Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with rosemary pesto

Slow-cooked l;amb shoulder recipe with black garlic and mint persillade on pink dish with white and orange check napkin and two grapefruit palomas with burnt grapefruit and a sprig of rosemary.
Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with black garlic and mint persillade

Lamb and pumpkin ragù with pappardelle

Slow-roasted lamb shoulder with Brussels sprout slaw

Fusilli with lamb ragu (Fusilli con ragu di agnello)
Sarah Cicolini’s fusilli con ragù di agnello (fusilli with lamb ragù)

Lamb korma
Lamb korma

Baharat lamb shoulder with onions and moghrabieh
Greg Malouf’s baharat lamb shoulder with onions and moghrabieh

Lamb with roast-apple chutney
Phil Wood’s lamb with roast-apple chutney

slow cooked Lamb and anchovy pies

slow Roast lamb neck with kale, feta and dill
Roast lamb neck with kale, feta and dill

Slow-cooked spiced lamb with prunes
Slow-cooked spiced lamb with prunes

Templo's slow cooked lamb belly with pearl barley

Guy Grossi's abbacchio alla Romana
Guy Grossi’s abbacchio alla Romana

Shane Delia: 12-hour roast lamb with pistachio and green-olive tabbouleh
Shane Delia’s 12-hour roast lamb with pistachio and green-olive tabbouleh

Slow cooker pumpkin and lamb neck
Braised pumpkin and lamb neck

Lamb shoulder and bean stew
Greek-style lamb shoulder and bean stew

Lamb shanks cooked slowly with olives and red wine
Lamb shanks baked in paper with olives and red wine

Pie with slow cooked lamb and Manchego cheese filling

Slow-roasted lamb shoulder with pistachios, pomegranate and vine leaves
Sean McConnell’s slow-roasted lamb shoulder with pistachios, pomegranate and vine leaves

Paul Carmichael's curried lamb leg slow cooked
Paul Carmichael’s curried lamb leg

Slow cooked Lamb and duchess potato pie

Shawarma-spiced roast lamb leg with beetroot sauce
Shawarma-spiced roast lamb leg with beetroot sauce

Buttermilk-brined slow cooked lamb shoulder with harissa
Buttermilk-brined lamb shoulder with harissa

Iranian-style lamb shoulder with cranberry and pistachio spiced rice
Iranian-style lamb shoulder with cranberry and pistachio spiced rice

Lamb shoulder ragu with gnocchetti
Pinbone’s lamb shoulder ragù with gnocchetti

Slow roasted lamb shoulder with yellow bean, cumin and chilli
Rick Shores’ slow roasted lamb shoulder with yellow bean, cumin and chilli

slow cooked Lamb with cumin by chef Andew McConnell

Slow-roasted spiced lamb recipe

Eight-hour lamb shoulder with pearl couscous and labne

Lamb shawarma slow cooked

Twelve-hour Indian-spiced lamb shoulder with saffron pilaf