Colorado potato and lamb cobbler

1 cobbler

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1¼ pounds Lamb*
Salt and pepper
¼ cup Flour (approximately)
2 teaspoons Olive oil
2 cups Lamb stock or
14½ ounce Can beef broth plus
¼ cup ;Water
¾ pounds Mushrooms; sliced
1 Onion; chopped
1 cup Flour
1 tablespoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 Egg yolk
2 Garlic cloves; minced
1 pounds Red-skinned potatoes cut in 3/4\" cubes
1½ teaspoon Fresh thyme or
1 teaspoon Dried thyme
1½ teaspoon Fresh rosemary or
1 teaspoon Dried rosemary
3 tablespoons Finely chopped fresh parsley
½ teaspoon Salt
½ cup Heavy cream
1 tablespoon Milk or cream

Directions

COBBLER DOUGH

TO BRUSH ON COBBLER DOUGH

*Cut from the shoulder or leg into ¾" pieces, well trimmed.

Season lamb with salt and pepper; dredge with flour.

In a Dutch oven or heavy pot, heat oil to medium high heat. Add lamb and cook until well-browned on all sides. Remove lamb from pot and reserve. Add ½ cup stock, mushrooms, onions and garlic; cook, stirring to scrape all brown bits from pan, until liquid has evaporated and onions are tender. Add remaining stock, potatoes, thyme and rosemary; cover and heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low; add lamb and simmer, partially covered, for 45 minutes or until lamb is tender. Season with additional salt and pepper if necessary. Stir in chopped parsley. (Sauce should be the consistency of gravy. If it's too thin, remove the ingredients to the casserole with a slotted spoon and boil the sauce to reduce it.) Meanwhile prepare cobbler dough.

Heat oven to 375 F. Ladle lamb mixture into a 1½ quart casserole or 10" round deep-dish pie plate. Top with cobbler dough, clustering and overlapping leaves slightly, allowing open spaces for steam to escape.

Beat together egg yolk and milk; brush dough with mixture. Bake about 20 minutes or until top is golden brown.

To make the cobbler dough: In a small bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Stir in cream; mix just until blended.

Gather dough into a ball. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to about ¼" thickness. Using a cookie cutter, cut dough into leaves or other shapes; reroll scraps and cut more shapes.

From Food Columnist Mary Alice Holt's 10/20/94 "A Little Lamb: Recipes from Rockies Feature American Meat" article in "The (Elizabethtown, KY) News-Enterprise." Pg. D1. Posted by Cathy Harned. Submitted By CATHY HARNED On 10-24-94

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