Mint sauce / Lamm mit Minzsauce

Lamm mit Minzsauce ja. Lamm mit Pfefferminzsauce nein. Lamm mit Pfefferminzsauce einschließlich Pfefferminzlikör kotz spei würg.

The German housewives’ programme ARD-Buffet has a daily lunch recipe, devoted today - so they say - to England, as one of the World Cup contestants. So today’s recipe is lamb with mint sauce. They did also admit that it was a Middle Eastern recipe, but I feel very bad about the way they did not distinguish between mint and peppermint - both were waved around and referred to. And the 10 ml of luminous green peppermint liqueuer made me feel very bad. What’s more, the Turks understand which is the right mint, and you can get it fresh or dried at Turkish greengrocers’. So do they really use peppermint with lamb in the Middle East?

Of course, it may be a ploy to attack the England team yet again.

1 Bund Minze 300 ml Lammfond 1 Zwiebel 4 EL Butterschmalz 10 ml Minzlikör 1 EL kalte Butter 1 TL Speisestärke 300 g grüne Bohnen 1 Schalotte 60 ml Gemüsebrühe 300 g Lammrücken Salz, Pfeffer