10 minutes plus 24 hours marinating time
Approximately 50 minutes
Serves 10
Scotch Lamb PGI
Scotch Lamb PGI takes its quality and characteristics from a stress-free life grazing on the Scottish hills.
What does quality assured mean?
The QMS Cattle & Sheep Assurance Scheme is the foundation of The Scotch Lamb PGI label. This year, we are celebrating it's 30th anniversary, making it the longest established scheme of its kind in the world. Further details on our scheme can be found below.
- To carry the Scotch Lamb PGI brand, all lamb must have been born, reared and processed in Scotland and spent their entire life on QMS Scotch Assured holdings.
- This whole of life brand eligibility is delivered by a suite of assurance schemes: one livestock: Cattle & Sheep and four non-livestock: Feeds, Haulage, Auction Market and Processor.
- Whole chain assurance underpins the integrity of these premium brands, and provides reassurance to consumers of provenance, highest standards of production, and animal welfare and wellbeing.
- Since 1996 the Scotch Lamb PGI brands has held the coveted European Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status, which legally protects the brand names from imitation.
- Animal welfare and wellbeing are of paramount importance in ensuring the highest product quality.
- Traceability of product is key and robust checker systems are in place.
- For further information on our standards, please visit, www.qmscotland.co.uk.
Our leading partner for animal welfare is
The SSPCA
QMS is a Scottish Public Body with an overall strategy to shape a sustainable and prospering Scottish red meat industry. Animal Welfare and Wellbeing are important factors in this strategy, and the guiding principles in this Animal Welfare and Wellbeing Charter are embedded in all QMS Quality Assurance Schemes and activities.
QMS recognises the Scottish SPCA (Scotland's Animal Welfare Charity) as its leading partner in matters relating to Animal Welfare and Wellbeing, and this collaboration underlines our commitment to transparency and independence.
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Sustainable sheep farming
Over 80% of Scottish farmland is not suitable for growing cereals and vegetables but ideal for beef and lamb production. Our farmers follow certain practices to help them farm sustainably and produce the highest quality Scotch Lamb.
Production plays an important part in sustaining the diverse landscape for which Scotland is famed. Scotland’s hill livestock farmers typically farm both cattle and sheep, a mixed grazing system which benefits landscape biodiversity (Source: Scottish Natural Heritage). Grass grazed by livestock captures carbon dioxide from the air and stores it in the soil.
Farming also plays an important part in social sustainability with over 50,000 jobs depending on the Scottish red meat industry, often in fragile rural communities. Scottish livestock farms typically remain in the same family, allowing farming skills to be passed down through generations. This includes invaluable knowledge of the terrain and conditions, as well as animal care skills. Livestock production has played a key role in Scotland’s social heritage for centuries, with cattle farming remaining at the heart of rural communities throughout the country.