Lamb Chops With Rocket & Feta Salad

Oven Baked Lamb with Pea Hummus

Recipes Easy Meals Oven Baked Lamb with Pea Hummus

Prep Time 15 mins

TOTAL TIME 20 mins

Serves 4

Ingredients

8 lamb loin chops
1 x 500g packet McCain Peas
1 cup (200g) cous cous
2 tbsp olive oil
1 ½ cups (375mL) hummus
3 tbsp thick mint sauce or mint jelly
Cracked black pepper
Fresh snow pea shoots, mint leaves or rocket leaves to garnish

How to make it

Preheat oven to 220oC.
Place the lamb chops on a rack over an oven tray, and bake for 10 minutes.
Once cooked, remove and wrap in foil for 10 minutes to rest.
While the lamb is resting, place cous cous in a large bowl, cover with 1 1/2 cups (375mL) boiling water and cover for 5 minutes. Remove cover, fluff grains with a fork to separate.
Cook peas according to pack instructions and drain.
Add half the peas and olive oil to cous cous and mix well.
Take the other half of the peas, mash with mint sauce and fold through hummus.
Serve the warm pea cous cous with cracked pepper, plate with pea hummus and rested lamb. Garnish with leaves to serve

Tipp: Lamb chops can be pan-fried or BBQ as an alternative, or replaced with lamb cutlets or sliced roast lamb.