Gino D’Acampo served up a tasty one pot lamb stew with celery, peas, black olives, orange zest, honey, potatoes, fresh thyme, caramelised onions and red wine on Gino’s Italian Coastal Escape.
The ingredients are: 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, 2 large red onions, peeled and sliced, 1kg lamb leg/breast/neck cut in to large chunks, 4 sticks of celery, trimmed and chopped in to 3cm chunks, reserve any leaves, 3 sprigs of thyme, 2 fresh bay leaves, squeezed and bruised, 3 oranges, zest of 1 and juice of 3 (quite small oranges), 90g pitted black olives, 3tbsp honey, 400ml red wine, 400g chopped tomatoes, 200ml vegetable or chicken stock, 3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into large chunks and 150g frozen peas, defrosted.
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