Home-style lamb curry

Name: Home-style lamb curry
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 2 h 5 min
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: thumb-sized piece ginger ½ cut into matchsticks, the rest left whole; 2 onions quartered; 4 garlic cloves; 2 tbsp rapeseed oil; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 tbsp ground coriander; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp ground turmeric; ½ tsp fennel seeds; 750g leg of lamb diced; 400g can chopped tomatoes; 1 red chilli or green chilli, deseeded and sliced; small bunch coriander stalks finely chopped, leaves roughly chopped; basmati rice and mango chutney or raita, to serve

Instructions

Prep:15minCook:1h 50min

Storecupboard spices along with puréed onions, garlic and ginger create an authentic flavour in this tender lamb curry, that's rich in iron and two of your 5-a-day

Updated at: Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:01:42 GMT