Lamb fries
Lamb fries are lamb testicles used as food. Historically they were parboiled, cut in half, and seasoned.[1] Lamb testicles are served in a variety of cuisines, including Italian,[2] Basque,[3] breaded and fried in some barbecue restaurants, Chinese,[4] Caucasian,[5] Persian and Iranian Armenian (called donbalan),[6] and Turkish.[7] The dish is rarely served at restaurants in the United States, but can occasionally be found at Iranian restaurants.[6]
Lamb fries, often served in a cream gravy, are a traditional dish in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky.[8]
In popular culture[]
In the film Funny Farm, the main character, Andy Farmer (Chevy Chase), breaks a local record by eating thirty lamb fries, only to discover what they actually are and spit the thirty-first out in revulsion.
See also[]
- List of lamb dishes
- Rocky Mountain oysters
- Testicle (food)
References[]
- ^ The Encyclopedia of Food and Beverage by Artemas Ward New York, 1911
- ^ "Canary Chicken House - CLOSED - West Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA". Yelp. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ Brown, Patricia Leigh. "Delicacy of the Wild West Lives on for Those So Bold". The New York Times.
- ^ Chowhound (13 October 2005). "Best Kung Pao Lamb Testicles in New York - Restaurants - Outer Boroughs".
- ^ "zakusochnaya.com". Zakusochnaya.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
- ^ a b "Two food writers eat at all the Persian restaurants in SoCal (OK, 18 of them)". LA Times.
- ^ "Dinner Menu". Archived from the original on 2011-02-19. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
- ^ Alvey, R. Gerald. Kentucky Bluegrass Country. University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
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