Roasted Leg of Lamb

Name: Roasted Leg of Lamb
Total time: 14400 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 2 kg leg of lamp; 3 tsp ground black pepper; 3 tsp salt; 4 tsp BBQ spice; 6 clove garlic; 100 grams streaky bacon, cut; 100 grams butter; 4 sprigs rosemary; 1 sheet Tinfoil, big enough to cover the leg of lamp

JJ @JJduPlessis1

Cape Town

This is one of my wife's favourites

JJ @JJduPlessis1

Cape Town

This is one of my wife's favourites

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Ingredients

240 mins

6 servings

2 kgleg of lamp
3 tspground black pepper
3 tspsalt
4 tspBBQ spice
6 clovegarlic
100 gramsstreaky bacon, cut
100 gramsbutter
4 sprigsrosemary
1 sheetTinfoil, big enough to cover the leg of lamp

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Steps

240 mins

1

Preheat oven to 130°C.
2

Make sure that your leg of lamp is at room temperature
3

Make cuts about 2 cm deep all over the meat. Take of the raw bacon and push them into each hole, followed by the garlic.
4

Melt the butter and mix with the ground black pepper, salt and BBQ spice.
5

Baste some of the butter mixture on the bottom of a ovenproof dish.
6

Baste the lamb with the remainder of the butter mixture and put the rosemary on top. Cover with tinfoil.
7

Bake at 130°C for 2.5 hours. Turn the heat up to 190°C and bake for a further 1 hour.
8

Remove the tinfoil and put the oven on grill (top element only) 230°C. Grill for 5 minutes or until the top is lightly crisped.