Rack of Lamb with Corncake

​This dish requires a great deal of preparation time but the payoff is definitely worth while.  Yes, this dish requires that you do a lot of preparation before the meal: you must prepare the lamb demi, sear the lamb, and prepare the corn cakes and mint butter in advance. The good news is that  you have little to do once it is time to serve your guests. At mealtime, all you need to do is pop the rack in the oven, wait a few minutes and then pop the corncake in the oven and make sure that you have your demi heated and mint butter ready to go.  

First Step: Make Your Corncakes
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1) Combine you corncake mix, then wrap and refrigerate it for at least an hour. 
2) Portion and form your corncakes and place them back in the fridge. 

Corncake Mix 

Portioning your cakes

Second Step: Sear Your Rack and Brown Your Corncakes
Note: each rack feeds two people.

​1) In almost smoking oil, sear the lamb racks on both sides until brown. Throw out the olive oil that you used to sear the lamb and keep the pans to cook the racks in later.
 
2) Also, in very hot oil, brown your corncakes on both sides.

Searing the lamb racks

Browning the cakes

​Time for dinner: Pop your Rack and Corncakes in the oven
 

​1) When it is time to cook the racks, pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees and place the racks and then the corncakes inside. (Start your corncakes after your racks because the cakes will take about twenty minutes to cook and even a rare rack will take 25 minutes in the oven). When the racks and cakes are done set them aside.
 
2) Make your mint butter sauce. Throw out the grease from the pan you used to bake your lamb, deglaze it with brandy, add the demi-glace and whip in your mint butter. (The sauce should be caramel-colored and creamy in consistency). 

Mint butter 

​3) Portion the racks and serve. After the racks have rested for at least five minutes, cut each rack into two pieces so that each guest gets the equivalent of two double chops. Sauce the perimeter of each plate, and intertwine two chops over an individual corncake. Garnish and serve. 

Rack of Lamb with Corncake