Mutton Broth Recipe: Step by Step With Pictures

Make a rich, tasty mutton broth at home. This step-by-step recipe with pictures guides you through preparing a delicious broth using seasonal vegetables, herbs and mutton.

Mutton Broth Recipe: Step by Step With Pictures
a bowl of mutton broth
Prep Time 15 min
Cook Time 90 min
Serving 8
Difficulty Easy

Cooking Preparation (Mise-en-place)

Measure all mutton broth ingredients accurately. Wash, peel and chop the carrots, turnip, celery, onions and parsley. Prepare all other kitchen equipment to be used for the actual cooking.

How to Make Mutton Broth: a Step-by-Step Recipe guide With Pictures

Follow the cooking steps below attentively. Enjoy the cooking at every stage, and make sure to come back after you have successfully cooked the broth and share your experience with us.

Ingredients

  • 400g- scrag end of mutton
  • 400g- vegetables (carrot, turnip, leek, celery, onion)
  • 2- bouquet garni
  • 2ltrs- mutton stock
  • 50g- barley
  • ½- parsley
  • Salt, pepper to taste

Nutritional Information

  • Energy: 410 KJ
  • Cals: 100 kcal
  • Fat: 4.5g
  • Sat Fat: 2.0g
  • Carb: 8.5 g
  • Sugar: 2.8 g
  • Protein: 6.8 g
  • Fibre: 1.0 g

Directions

1. Boil the mutton.

Boil the mutton in a saucepan.

Boil the mutton.
2. Cover mutton with cold water and boil

Clean the pan, replace the meat and bring to a boil, then skim.

Cover mutton with cold water and boil
3. Add the barley.

Add the washed barley, and simmer for 1 hour.

Add the barley.
4. Add the vegetables.

Add the vegetables, bouquet garni and seasoning.

Add the vegetables.
5. Simmer.

Simmer until tender for approximately 30 minutes.

Simmer.
6. Cut the meat into neat pieces the same size as the vegetables.

Remove the meat, let it cool, then cut it away from the bone. Remove all fat and dice the meat into neat pieces the same size as the vegetables. Return the meat to the broth.

Cut the meat into neat pieces the same size as the vegetables.
7. Add the chopped parsley

Adjust the seasoning, skim off all the fat, add the chopped parsley, and serve hot.

Add the chopped parsley