Warm Lamb Salad with Pumpkin Tomato & Feta - a warm and filling salad of oven roasted pumpkin, tomatoes & capsicum (peppers) topped with spice rubbed lamb leg steak and a mustard pine nut dressing.
To be perfectly honest with you guys, a salad is not what I would pick to have for dinner. If I'm going to have a "salad" for dinner, it had better be a decent "meal in a bowl" kind of salad. A dinner salad. Is that a thing? If it isn't, then it should be!
Enter my version of a dinner salad - Warm Lamb Salad with Pumpkin Tomato & Feta - doesn't it look gorgeous?
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How to make this warm salad
This "dinner salad" is a cinch to throw together -
- Put your chopped vegetables in the oven to roast.
- Coat your lamb leg steaks in the spice rub, then fry them off.
- Take them out of the pan to rest, then add your dressing ingredients to the pan to warm through.
- Slice your lamb, then mix it together with the roasted vegetables and rocket.
- Top with dressing and feta, then eat!
This is definitely a salad worthy of standing alone on your dinner table tonight!
Other lamb recipes you may like
Amazing Slow-Cooked Pulled Lamb Shoulder - this recipe will give you moist, tender, pull apart lamb that is so soft it shreds with just two forks!
Moroccan Lamb Mince with Hummus - quick and easy spiced lamb with smooth creamy hummus, topped with fresh herbs. Dinner is done in 30 minutes!
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Quick Lamb Ragu - a fast and tasty weeknight-friendly lamb ragu recipe, using lamb mince (ground lamb). Lamb ragu in 1 hour!
Enjoy,
Lee-Ann ♥
📖 Recipe
Warm Lamb Salad with Pumpkin Tomato & Feta
Ingredients
- 4 lamb leg steaks
- 350 g butternut pumpkin (butternut squash) 1 - 11/2 cm dice
- 1 red capsicum (red pepper) sliced into strips
- 1 red (spanish) onion sliced into wedges
- 250 g mini tomatoes halved - I used mini romas
- 60 g baby rocket / arugula
- 2 lemons juice only
- 2 teaspoon whole grain mustard
- 2 tablespoon pine nuts
- 100 g danish feta crumbled
Spice Rub
- 2 teaspoon olive oil plus extra for frying
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoon ground coriander seeds
- ¼ teaspoon fine salt
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 190c
- Pile the pumpkin, capsicum, tomatoes and onion wedges into the middle of a large baking tray. Drizzle with 2 teaspoon of olive oil, then mix with your hands to coat. Spread out the vegetables into an even layer on the baking tray, as well spaced as you can. Bake for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl mix together the mustard and lemon juice, then set aside.
- Combine all the ingredients for the spice rub, and evenly coat both sides of each lamb leg steak with the rub.
- Pan fry the lamb leg steaks over medium high heat using the extra olive oil, until cooked to your liking. Immediately turn the pan down to low, then remove the lamb to a plate to rest. Add pine nuts to pan and stir - they should start to colour almost straight away. As soon as they start to colour, switch off the heat, add the combined mustard & lemon juice, and continue stirring to heat through.
- Thinly slice the lamb leg steaks, and add any of the resting juices to your mustard & lemon dressing.
- Combine the now cooked roasted vegetables with the baby rocket (arugula) and divide amongst plates. Top with sliced lamb, crumble over feta then drizzle with mustard & lemon dressing.
Notes
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I couldn't find the recipe for roast leg of lamb, but then it might have got mixed in with all the advertisements.
Hi Charlene! This recipe is for a salad made using lamb leg steaks, so I'm not sure why you thought it had a recipe for a roast leg of lamb?
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Oh WOW!!!! I love this salad. Lamb salad is THE BEST. The flavours, the simple ingredients, yum and yum and I can almost taste it, nice one Lee-Ann!
Thanks so much Adrianne! 😘
What a delicious combination of flavours! I shall look forward to trying this soon.
Thanks Alexandra, hope you enjoy it!