lamb fries

{{short description|Fried lamb testicles}}

{{distinguish|lamb's fry}}

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Lamb fries are lamb testicles used as food. Historically they were parboiled, cut in half, and seasoned.The Encyclopedia of Food and Beverage by Artemas Ward New York, 1911 Lamb testicles are served in a variety of cuisines, including Basque,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/us/18oyster.html|title=Delicacy of the Wild West Lives on for Those So Bold|first=Patricia Leigh|last=Brown|work=The New York Times |date=17 March 2009 }} breaded and fried in some barbecue restaurants, Chinese,{{cite web|url=http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/247585|title=Best Kung Pao Lamb Testicles in New York - Restaurants - Outer Boroughs|last=Chowhound|date=13 October 2005|publisher=}} Caucasian,{{cite web |url=http://zakusochnaya.com/index.html |title=zakusochnaya.com |publisher=Zakusochnaya.com |accessdate=2019-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222137/http://zakusochnaya.com/index.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }} Persian and Iranian Armenian (called donbalan),{{cite news |title=Two food writers eat at all the Persian restaurants in SoCal (OK, 18 of them) |newspaper=LA Times |date=6 August 2019 |url=https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2019-08-05/persian-iranian-restaurants-westwood-glendale-irvine-anissa-helou}} and Turkish.{{cite web|url=http://www.efendy.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64:dinner-menu&catid=35&Itemid=63|title=Dinner Menu|access-date=2011-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219004225/http://www.efendy.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64:dinner-menu&catid=35&Itemid=63|archive-date=2011-02-19|url-status=dead}} The dish is rarely served at restaurants in the United States, but can occasionally be found at Iranian restaurants.

Lamb fries, often served in a cream gravy, are a traditional dish in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky.Alvey, R. Gerald. Kentucky Bluegrass Country. University Press of Mississippi, 1992.