Our cooking instructions are a guide. Your cut of meat may vary slightly in thickness, it may be warmer or cooler when it hits the pan and your oven or hob may behave differently to ours. Use our instructions as a guide, but deploy your senses too; look, prod, listen and smell while you cook. After all, cookery should provide us pleasure as well as nourishment.
Take a cast iron pan and place over a medium-high heat.
To the pan add a drizzle of British Organic rapeseed oil or half a teaspoon of animal fat like beef dripping or lard.
Allow the fat to heat up to a sizzle.
Generously season the lamb leg steaks with pure sea salt. You could also add a crack of freshly ground back pepper if you like.
Place the steaks into the pan, ensuring they have a good amount of space around them, this stops them from stewing and allows them to pan fry beautifully.
Cook on one side for around 2 minutes, or until a good golden crust has formed. Do not be tempted to move the steak around the pan, you want it to stay in contact with the base to crisp.
Once browned, flip the steak over and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. A good indicator that your steak is cooked, is when you see a few tiny droplets of blood appear on the surface. At this point, remove from the heat.
You could finish the steak by adding a knob of grass fed butter and a sprig of rosemary to the pan and baste the steak for the last minute.
Leave the steak to rest for around 5-7 minutes before serving.