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Roasted garlic, onion and lemon become the dressing for this simple lamb roast.

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11 fall-apart lamb shoulder recipes (plus the perfect roast potatoes) for your Easter feast

Featuring Adam Liaw’s lemony slow-roasted lamb shoulder that needs no extra sauce, and the “broken” potatoes you can bung in the oven at the same time.

11 recipes
Adam Liaw’s roast lamb shoulder with mint sauce and gravy.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s perfect slow-roasted lamb shoulder with gravy and fresh mint sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Mediterranean-inspired braised lamb shoulder with potatoes.

Braised lamb shoulder with oregano and preserved lemon

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Broken potatoes.

Adam Liaw’s roast lamb shoulder with garlic and lemon, and ‘broken’ potatoes

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Roast lamb shoulder shawarma.

Roast lamb shoulder shawarma​

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
This lamb shoulder dish might take a while to cook but it is mostly hands-off.
EASY

Pot-roasted lamb shoulder with cherry tomatoes, white wine, garlic and lemon

  • 2 hrs +
  • Sarah Pound
Overnight spiced lamb shoulder with an almond pomegranate crust.

Overnight spiced lamb shoulder with an almond pomegranate crust

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
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Three Blue Ducks' slow-cooked lamb shoulder.

Sticky lamb shoulder recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LeBrooy
Neil Perry's Middle-Eastern-inspired slow-roasted lamb shoulder with almonds.

Slow-roasted lamb shoulder with almonds

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Whole roast lamb shoulder with Sichuan sauce, coriander and mint paste and sesame flatbread.

Whole roast lamb shoulder with Sichuan sauce

  • 2 hrs +
  • Andrew McConnell
Neil Perry's slow-cooked lamb shoulder.

Neil Perry's slow-braised lamb shoulder with aioli

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Middle Eastern slow-roasted lamb shoulder.
EASY

Zaatar roasted lamb shoulder with pomegranate salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink