Lamb brain fritters with egg salad
Nose-to-tail cooking is making a comeback with dishes featuring offal becoming more and more popular. This is a dish Michael Diacono remembers from his childhood.
Lamb brain fritters with egg salad
Ingredients
- 300g lamb brains
- Handful parsley
- Salt and pepper
- 3 eggs
Egg salad
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- Handful pistachios, finely chopped
- Handful capers, finely chopped
- Handful parsley, finely chopped
- Pepper
Method
- Boil the lamb brains in salted water for approx. 12 mins until cooked through. Drain.
- Add the brains to a food processor with the parsley and season with salt and pepper.
- Add the eggs and mix well.
- In a pan melt the butter with a little olive oil.
- When the fat is hot, add tbsps of the brain batter to the pan and allow to cook until set on one side, approx 3 mins.
- Flip over and cook on the other side.
- To make the egg salad, separate the whites from the yolks and finely chop the whites.
- Add the pistachios, capers and parsley and season with pepper only.
- Add a little olive oil and mix well.
- Chop the egg yolks and put in a separate bowl.
- Serve the fritters topped with egg salad and sprinkle over the chipped yolks.
- Add a little fresh parsley and serve.
This recipe first appeared on Gourmet Today TV, aired on TVM on 10 June 2017.