Cook them low, cook them slow. These lamb shoulder recipes take time, but you’ll be rewarded with tender, fall-apart meat. The Middle East yields some of the best recipes for slow-cooked lamb shoulder – try the Persian lamb with rhubarb and chelow, the slow-cooker Morrocan lamb with honey, or the Baharat spiced lamb shoulder with onions and moghrabieh.
For some Chinese flavours, head to the lamb with cumin from Andrew McConnell’s Golden Fields restaurant, Neil Perry’s shredded lamb shoulder with salted chilli, or the shou zhua yang rou chuan (deep-fried lamb skewers with chilli and cumin). And for a weekend project, the eight-hour lamb shoulder with Israeli couscous and labne proves that when it comes to lamb shoulder recipes, slow and steady always win the race.