Little Lies of Lamb

Ingredients

• Milk-fed lamb chops (costillitas de cordero de leche)
• Cooked, mashed potato (papa cocida y molida)
• 3 Eggs
• Parsley
• Celery (apio)
• Pepper
• Salt
• Breadcrumbs (ralladuras de pan)
• Pork lard from fresh bacon (grasa de chancho del tocino fresco)
• Olives
• Pickled gherkins (pepinillos curtidos)

Instructions

1. Trim and scrape the milk-fed lamb chops, grind the meat, and reserve the bones.
2. Mix the meat with an equal amount of cooked mashed potato, three eggs, parsley, celery, pepper and salt.
3. Divide into portions by number of bones; set a bare bone in each and shape like a chop.
4. Roll in beaten egg, then breadcrumbs, and fry in pork lard from fresh bacon.
5. Serve without sauce, garnished with olives and pickled gherkins.