Asian rack of lamb marinade

Asian rack of lamb marinade is flavorful. It's prepared in the oven, made from the best meat from the lamb. The soy sauce coating provides a delicious glaze on the outside of the tender meat. You then fry it briefly in the pan (for even more flavor) and continue roasting in the oven until the meat is medium cooked. An easy recipe for a rich and delicious piece of lamb.

This rack of lamb recipe uses rib bones that are still attached to each other. This makes it a type of meat that is very easy to prepare in a delicious way. Often the rack is flavored with a rub of green herbs. But what is also delicious is to marinate the rack with an Asian marinade of soy sauce, ginger, sambal and garlic. You quickly fry it in the pan and then you bake the rack of lamb in the oven until it is just right.

Asian flavors

You bake the rack of lamb at a medium temperature in the oven, so that it is served tender and medium done on your plate. And to get a rich taste, fry it in the pan beforehand until it is nicely brown on all sides.

And afterward, you put the rack of lamb together with the baking liquid (even more flavor!) into the oven dish.

Asian lamsrack from the oven has a rich flavor due to the soy sauce marinade. A perfectly cooked piece of lamb.

Baked in the oven

Oven-baked lamsrack is a good choice when you want medium rare. It is much more difficult to cook the meat to the right temperature in the pan. Because you let the rack of lamb cook in the oven at a fixed temperature, it is easily possible to serve it medium rare on your plate.

This tender piece of meat is delicious when served with green beans with herb crumbs and white rice or roast potatoes.

🥘 Ingredients

A full list of ingredients can be found at the end of this blog.

• Rack of lamb - The meat has a soft structure and a delicious full flavor. And they are the best-baked medium done, but quite rosé. Check your rack of lamb before preparing. If it's not properly cleaned, the bone can have a layer of fat. Because this meat only has a short cooking time, that fat will be undercooked. So make sure you cut that fat side that away.

•  Brown sugar, soy sauce, garlic, ginger and sambal - The ingredients for the soy sauce marinade. It will become nice and thick and so it is more of a glaze, a light glaze, that sticks on your rack of lamb. It combines wonderfully with this soft meat.

• Spring onion - Sprinkle some spring onion over the meat after baking. It has a slightly sweet, subtle flavor that goes well with the meat (and it also looks very nice when served). Cut it into thin strips.

A recipe that can be printed can be found at the bottom of this blog in the recipe card.

Step 1 - Prepare the soy sauce marinade

1. Put the brown sugar and soy sauce in a bowl.
2. Add the sambal.
3. Squeeze the garlic clove over the bowl. 
4. Grate the ginger on top of the marinade.

Step 2 - Marinate / Glaze the lamb

1. Mix the marinade with a fork until you get a thick paste.
2. Put the meat in the marinade and turn it over. Make sure it is generously covered. Marinate the lamb for at least 3 or 4 hours.

Step 3 - Fry the meat briefly 

1. Heat one tablespoon of oil in the pan and fry the lamb for two minutes on high heat.
2. Turn the lamsrack and cook for two more minutes. Remove the pan from the heat.

Step 4 - Bake in the oven

1. Place the rack of lamb with the baking liquid in an oven dish or on a baking sheet (lined with aluminum foil. Bake in a preheated oven at 390 °F (200 °C) for 15 minutes.
2. Remove the meat from the oven and cover it with aluminum foil. Let it rest for three minutes so that the meat can rest and the juices in the meat can distribute well. Cut into slices and sprinkle with spring onions.

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Asian rack of lamb Marinade

Author: Andréa

Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 5 mins

marinate 4 hrs

Total Time 15 mins

Asian

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Asian rack of lamb marinade gives a deicious flavor. It's prepared in the oven, made from the best meat from the lamb. The soy sauce coating provides a delicious glaze on the outside of the tender meat. You then fry it briefly in the pan (for even more flavor) and continue roasting in the oven until the meat is medium cooked. An easy recipe for a rich and delicious piece of lamb.

Equipment

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  A conventional oven is used. When using a convection oven (with air fan) decrease the temperature wit 30 °F / 20 °C
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  frying pan
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  oven dish

Ingredients 

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• ▢ 16 pieces rack of lamb approx. 8 servings each
• ▢ 3 cloves garlic
• ▢ 1 inch ginger
• ▢ 1 teaspoon chilli pepper
• ▢ ½ cup soy sauce
• ▢ 1 cups brown sugar
• ▢ 2 tablespoons oil
• ▢ 2 spring onions

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Instructions

Marinade

• Check if the rack of lamb contains fat around the bones. When it does, remove it.
• Prepare a marinade of garlic, ginger, sambal, soy sauce, and sugar.
• Marinate the meat for 3 to 4 hours
• Preheat the oven to 390 °F (200 °C).

Bake the Asian rack of lamb

• Heat one tablespoon of oil in the frying pan and fry the lamb on all sides until it's brown.
• Put the meat with baking liquid in a baking dish and bake for 15 minutes in the oven.
• Let the meat rest for 3 minutes and then cut it into slices.
• Serve with sliced spring onion

Notes

1. Rack of lamb - Check the rack of lamb before preparing. If there is a lot of fat around the bones, cut it away. Rack of lamb is cooked in a relatively short time and the fat will not be cooked enough.

2. Great with - This recipe is delicious with green beans with breadcrumbs and rice or roast potatoes from the oven.

3. Let it rest - By allowing meat and fish to rest for a while after baking or grilling, less juices will be released after cutting, and they will therefore remain in your meat or fish. So much better.

4. Storage - The rack of lamb can be kept in the refrigerator for two days after preparation. Then take it out of the refrigerator 30 minutes before eating and warm it in the oven at 390 °F (or 200 °C) for 10 minutes. Baste halfway with some water, so that it stays moist.

Leftover rack of lamb will keep for up to two months in the freezer. Let it thaw in the refrigerator. Then take it out of the refrigerator for thirty minutes before preparing and heat it in the oven at 390 °F (or 200 °C) for 10 minutes. To ensure that the rack does not dry out, baste it with a little water beforehand and halfway through.

5. Nutrition - The nutritional values ​​are on the high side, because you actually use a maximum of half of the marinade (that's not too bad anyway!). This amount of lamb is enough for four adults. The nutritional values ​​are the maximum amounts per person (if all marinade were used).

Nutrition

Calories: 309kcal | Carbohydrates: 57g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 3mg | Sodium: 1639mg | Sugar: 54g | Vitamin A: 72IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Iron: 1mg

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