Rack of Lamb with Herb Sauce

• 4 each carrots
• 1 bunch rosemary leaves
• 2 each celery stalks
• 1 bunch parsley leaves
• 3 medium onions
• 4 each garlic
• 2 bunch thyme
• 1 tablespoon black pepper
• 10 each bay leaves
• 2 cups vegetable oil
• 2 each rack of lamb
• 4 ounces ham cooked, julienned
• 2 each soup bones from lamb
• 1 large pickles, dill julienned
• 8 large mushrooms
• 4 ounces butter
• 2 medium carrots
• 1 cup snow pea pods
• 2 bunch mint leaves fresh
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 1/2 cups wine

1. For the marinade, dice the carrots, celery, and onion.
2. Coarsely chop the thyme, bay leaves, rosemary, parsley, and garlic.
3. Add salad oil and mix all of the ingredients together in a large bowl.
4. Rub the mixture over the rack of lamb and marinate for 48 hours, turning occasionally.
5. Remove the lamb from the marinade and drain.
6. Strain the vegetables in the marinade and reserve.
7. In a large roasting pan, brown the lamb bones at 500 degrees F for 15 minutes.
8. Add drained mirepoix (the strained vegetables) from the marinade and brown another five minutes.
9. Strain the contents of the roasting pan to eliminate fat and then transfer the bones and vegetables to a stock pot.
10. Add 6 chopped mushrooms and mint, then deglaze the roasting pan with red wine and add the liquids to the stockpot.
11. Add the demi-glace and bouquet garni and cook for two hours, skimming carefully and adjusting seasoning.
12. Strain this sauce through chinois into a pan.
13. Heat the sauce.
14. Add julienned ham, pickle, and 2 mushroom tops to sauce and adjust seasoning.
15. Salt and pepper racks of lamb and sprinkle with thyme.
16. Put racks of lamb in a roasting pan and roast for 15 to 18 minutes.
17. Remove rack from roasting pan and let racks rest for five minutes before carving.
18. Blanch carrots and snow peas, then saute in butter and reserve.
19. Cut racks in half, four ribs per person.
20. Warm sauce and ladle around racks.
21. Garnish with sauteed carrots, snow peas, and watercress.

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Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/rack-of-lamb-herb-sauce-47388 (may not work)