Diced Mutton 500g

⭐⭐⭐ great taste® 2024

Generous chunks of lean, flavoursome mutton* are a superior choice for a rich, spicy curry or a fragrant tagine with saffron and prunes.

Chef Val Warner inspires:
"Sadly, mutton is rarely seen in either supermarkets or butchers but for the Muslim, Indian and Caribbean communities, all wiser for their enjoyment of it. Lamb being the preference and thus the elderly are being ignored most unwisely. Mutton although more fibrous in texture can be cooked to toothsome tender whilst delivering a deep and very satisfying flavour that stands up to being cooked with spices, alcohol and citrus; an obscure recipe I once came across saw it prepared in a casserole with Welsh laverbread, capers and oranges! 

For those who like their lamb lambier and mutton is certainly a fuller tasting, stronger, deeper, fattier joy that with a little more concentration should see a long overdue comeback. In larger pieces and a long slow cook is best.

I like to cook diced mutton with dried chamomile, dried fig leaves, wine and honey or with oranges, onions, black peppercorns and red wine. Either served with buttered, dill rice is a wonderful thing.

Biryani in its true form under a pastry lid is a rare sight and a dinner party showpiece when breaking into it before your guests.

In Caribbean curries diced mutton is often the replacement for goat, so very heavy and pleasing with rice and peas and fried plantains. A winner. But don’t plan on doing anything afterwards."

great taste® commented:
"Fabulous mutton, this is supremely tender and has produced a rich broth despite only being cooked in water. The meat falls apart and we believe it would be fantastic in a tagine or curry. It has great flavour and we love the fact it is mutton and the animal has lived that bit longer to develop this flavour. It is a lean meat and there is the faintest suggestion of dryness in a couple of pieces, but we believe this would be entirely eradicated if cooked with other ingredients. Superb quality meat with a resounding depth of flavour.

These are generous chunks of mutton in a thin jus, with a deep, meaty aroma. On the palate the meat had a surprising youthfulness for mutton, we felt - perhaps more hogget-like. We wondered if it would stand up to the spices in a tagine. But it's certainly tender, juicy and of undoubted quality.

These are really generous pieces of mutton with masses of flavour and juice. The aroma is rich and enticing and the meat literally melted in the mouth. The juices left behind were full of flavour and left the judges just wanting to eat all of it."

*By virtue of spending over two years living wild and free in the Yorkshire Dales, our heritage breed mutton boasts a full and rich flavour, characterised by an entirely natural diet of grasses, herbs, and heather; this unique taste is its crowning glory. Swaledale Diced Mutton is Always Fresh, Never Frozen®, expertly butchered to order, vacuum-packed, and shipped in recyclable packaging to arrive safely insulated and ready to enjoy.