Food Lust People Love: Lamb Feta Mint Patties

These lamb feta mint patties are fabulous on their own, in a toasted bun or stacked with grilled eggplant, lettuce and tomato for a sandwich with a twist.

Food Lust People Love: These lamb feta and mint patties are fabulous on their own, in a toasted bun or stacked with grilled eggplant for a sandwich with a twist.

Half of the year we live in the Channel Islands where ground lamb is readily available. It’s still not cheap but then again neither is beef so sometimes we like a change. Depending on your source, lamb is usually very flavorful and juicy with a higher fat content than beef.

Although I do make a shepherd’s pie on occasion, I tend to make patties out of lamb mince, as it’s called in the UK, because then you do really get to taste the lamb. In a shepherd’s pie, there’s so much else going on as well. In this case, the addition of feta adds moisture and salt but the lamb still shines through.

Lamb Feta Mint Patties

This recipe is adapted from one on the delicious. magazine Australia website. They made meatballs to add to a tomato salad but I couldn't stop thinking about patties. It was a good decision!

Ingredients

2 lbs or 900g minced lamb

7oz or 200g Greek feta, crumbled

1/2 cup or 35g fresh breadcrumbs

several sprigs fresh mint

2 garlic cloves, crushed then minced

1 teaspoon fine sea salt

1/2 teaspoon allspice

Freshly ground black pepper

Drizzle olive oil for frying in a non-stick pan

Method

Pick the leaves off of the mint stems and mince them. Discard the stems.

Combine the lamb, feta, bread crumbs, mint leaves, garlic, salt and allspice with a few generous grinds of black pepper in a bowl.

Divide into 6 portions and form patties. Place on a tray, cover and chill for 20-30 minutes to firm up. (Looks like five but there are indeed six! The front one is a double.)

Heat a drizzle of oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Add the patties and fry, turning often, for 7-8 minutes or until browned and cooked through.

As you can see, I served these with some pan-fried slices of eggplant, sliced tomato and lettuce in a stack but you could easily tuck a patty in pita bread or a bun. Condiment of your choice but I can highly recommend a little mayo with chives.

Enjoy!

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