Recipe - BBQ'd Lamb and Baby Octopus & Pepper rice with Greek-style yoghurt

 BBQ'd Lamb and Baby Octopus

This is easy - marinade the Lamb and Baby Octopus for at least an hour before BBQing.

Marinade

·         Chopped Spanish Onion and a bunch of cloves of garlic

·         Red wine

·         Dried oregano

·         Olive oil

·         Salt and Pepper

Pepper rice with Greek-style yoghurt

This is taken from http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/pepper-rice-with-greek-style-yoghurt.htm but I altered it slightly as I didn’t want to have to begin this recipe a day ahead.

The recipe amount serves 10 so cut it back if you have less people (which I did, what you're looking at is a meal for 2)

Cooking Time Prep time 15 mins, cook 30 mins (plus draining)

 Ingredients

·         500 gm  Greek-style yogurt

·         80 gm cold salted butter, coarsely chopped

·         2 tbsp sage leaves

·         2 tsp extra-virgin olive oil

·         ½ tsp each onion, finely chopped

·         250 gm (1¼ cups) carnaroli rice

·         50 ml dry white wine

·         2 tsp coarsely ground black pepper

·         1 litre (4 cups) hot chicken stock

·         50 gm finely grated parmesan

Method

1.       Cook half the butter in a small saucepan over medium-high heat until foaming and starting to turn golden (1-2 minutes), add sage and stir occasionally until crisp (20-30 seconds). Drain and reserve leaves and butter separately.

2.       Heat oil and half the remaining butter in a large wide saucepan over medium-high heat, add onion, stir occasionally until translucent (3-4 minutes).

3.       Add rice, stir until grains become transparent (1 minute), deglaze with wine and cook until wine evaporates (1-2 minutes)

4.       Add pepper.

5.       Add stock, a ladle at a time, stirring continuously until stock is almost completely absorbed and rice is tender (16-18 minutes).

6.       Remove from heat, season to taste, stir in parmesan, sage butter and remaining chopped butter, cover and stand for 3 minutes

7.       Serve hot with dollops of yoghurt, scattered with crisp sage.

This rice was such an awesome side dish and the yogurt through it took it to a whole new level -  I will be doing this as a side dish for sure next time I entertain.