believe it. this is my first time with lamb and i bought what they said. i ended up with about a third pound. i was very pleased with the meat, though. the lamb smelled wonderful cooking.
if you make the meal as i have it below, you can make the salad ahead of time and cook the rice and plum sauce and make the pomegranate gel the day before.
cook the rice according to package directions but use 1 cup rice to 2 cup water. you can cook the rice the day before.
for a steamer, i used a big stock pot with a steamer rack (one of those little jobs that looks 