Oven roasted leg of organic lamb from Häljegård farm just outside Umeå spiked with fresh garlic and rubbed with Garam Masala and Tandoori spices, accompanied with sweated green peppers, tomatos, red onion, garlic, fresh coriander and chilli and a raita made with grated Swedish apples, tumeric, corriander and dried apricots (which I’d smuggled back from our recent trip to France) .

It was the Indian influences in this dish that made me choose Belhaven’s Twisted Thistle IPA. The sweet spicy hops were more than a match for the heat from the Garam Masala, Tandoori and chilli while Twisted’s lengthy bitter edge cut through the creamy raita like a knife.