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Lamb Bhuna Skint Dad Fakeaway Recipe

By Ricky Willis | last updated 3rd December 2020

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Lamb Bhuna Budget Fakeaway RecipeIt’s been a while but today we revisited the very popular Skint Dad Fakeaway with a budget lamb bhuna. For long-time readers you will know in the early days (around 16 months ago) I would attempt to recreate a favourite dish or dishes from one of our local takeaways.

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After a little trial and error on 13 October 2013 the first Skint Dad Fakeaway was born! It was a vegetable masala with onion bhajis and naan bread. All made from scratch with basic ingredients and it cost a whopping £2.57 for the whole meal.

For the next few months, every Saturday night we would cook our little butts off recreating a cheaper alternative to what we would normally order as take-out. The following day we would then share the recipe on here along with great photos (they weren’t great) and a cost breakdown of the ingredients.

Although our last stab at a Fakeaway was almost a year ago, I still get people tweeting, emailing and bugging me to start them up again and, as I’m a person that is eager to please my readers, I’ve succumb to their pleas.

Lamb Bhuna Fakeaway

Lamb bhuna isn’t a go to dish of mine when it comes to Indian food. I’m certainly (or have been) more of a Jalfrezi or Masala type of guy and chicken is normally my meat of choice. But, I want to learn to make new dishes and for that I will need to try new dishes.

I’m so glad I made this curry!

Lamb isn’t a meat we eat often as there are cheaper alternatives such as chicken and mince. Very occasionally if we see a leg of lamb discounted at the supermarket (this never happens) we will grab it for a Sunday roast but that’s it.

Lamb Bhuna Budget Fakeaway Recipe

I know that lamb can be pretty expensive and can push the price of this recipe up but I managed to pick up a reduced pack in Co-op (my local Co-op are great for reducing meat!). You can still normally get it for around £4 for a pack, or can just wait for it to go on offer then buy up a few and freeze them.

If you can’t stretch the budget to use lamb, consider chicken thighs as they work out great too.

The recipe itself was very straightforward. It’s easy to prepare and left to get on with other things such as making homemade onion bhajis (or the washing up).

Bhuna sets itself out to be a medium/hot curry but I didn’t find this recipe to overbearing. In the short time the lamb was cooking the spices infused to give off a deep warming flavour which all of us, including our youngest daughter Chloe, enjoyed.

Because this lamb bhuna dish is quite quick to prepare and cook I can’t see a problem with having it midweek, even if you do start cooking after 5pm.

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Fakeaway: Lamb Bhuna Recipe
Prep time:  10 mins
Cook time:  25 mins
Total time:  35 mins
Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • 350g lamb, cubed
  • 2 onions, chopped
  • 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
  • 5g ginger, finely chopped
  • 1 tin of tomatoes
  • 2 tsp Coriander powder
  • ½ tsp Cumin
  • ½ tsp Turmeric
  • 1 tsp Garam masala
  • 1 tsp Chilli powder
  • 2 tbsp Oil
  • 280g rice
Total cost: £4.70 for a family of four - £1.18 per serving
Instructions
  1. Heat oil in a pan and add the onions, ginger, garlic, turmeric, coriander powder, cumin and lamb, mixing everything together.
  2. When the lamb begins to brown, cover the pan, reduce the heat to low and cook for 10 minutes. Stir half way through.
  3. Then add the tomatoes, chilli powder, garam masala and a pinch of salt and mix in.
  4. Cook on low for a further 10-15 minutes without the lid on, until the sauce thickens.
  5. Serve with rice of your choice.
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Penny for your thoughts: What favourite take out dish would you like us to give the skint treatment to? Let us know in the comments below.

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Comments

  1. Not Even A Bag of Sugar says

    10th March 2015 at 8:39 pm

    From an old cook the best way to buy lamb is lamb shoulder on the bone. It’s cheap as chips. You need to strip it off the bone and cube it yourself. It’s worth it. You can usually get a half shoulder for £3 ish but the equivalent weight of diced shoulder is usually double the price even taking into account the bone! The only thing is you either need to cook the curry in a slow cooker or a low oven for a lot longer as shoulder is a meat that needs a lot of cooking but honestly makes the best curry!

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  2. Downs Side Up says

    26th March 2015 at 2:18 pm

    This looks amazing Rick. I am a huge fan of slow cooked cheaper cuts, so will definitely give this a go!

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  3. Alasdair Kerr says

    6th December 2020 at 6:53 pm

    Delish…2nd time I tried lamb also tried chicken both great .this time for more veg I added a half cubed courgette a some roasted cauliflour..frozen peppers .and some cooked mushrooms at the same When I added the tomatoes .Also used chilli flakes because I ran out of chilli powder.

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