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    Slow cooked Irish lamb and barley soup

    Serves: 6
    Cooking Time: 8 hour

    Ingredients

    • 10ml (2 tsp) olive oil
    • 500g lamb neck
    • 2 medium carrots, grated
    • 1 small celery stalk, diced
    • 1 small onion, finely chopped
    • 1 large leek, sliced
    • 170g (1 cup) pearl barley, washed
    • salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
    • 2L good quality lamb stock

    Instructions

    1

    Heat the oil in a frying pan and brown the meat.

    2

    Place all of the ingredients in the slow cooker and set for 8 hours on high.

    3

    Serve with Irish soda bread.