Roast leg of Lamb

Juan Mouton
Juan Mouton @mouts

The best meat for a Sunday roast

Roast leg of Lamb

The best meat for a Sunday roast

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Ingredients

  1. 1.5 kgleg of lamb (bone in)
  2. Oil
  3. Salt
  4. Pepper
  5. 2 tspdried thyme
  6. 1 tspfresh rosemary finely chopped
  7. 250 gstreaky bacon
  8. 2red onions
  9. 3bay leaves
  10. 500 mlred wine
  11. 200 mlwater

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Drizzle some oil in a pan or griddle pan, salt and pepper the joint and seal on the pan on all sides

  2. 2

    Place in a roasting tray with a lib (you can use foil to cover if you don’t have a lid) and sprinkle the rosemary and thyme

  3. 3

    Cover with the streaky bacon. (I used normal bacon as didn’t have streaky in the fridge.

  4. 4

    Add the onions (cut into wedges) and the bay leaves and the water and wine. Cover and cook in a preheated oven of 160’C for 3hours.

  5. 5

    Serve with your choice of accompaniments. My potatoes were added to the cooking tray at the same time as the onions, if you wanted the same.

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