Roasted Leg of Lamb
- 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 twigs rosemary
- 1 Tinfoil, big enough to cover the leg of lamp
- Preheat oven to 130C.
- Make sure that your leg of lamp is at room temperature
- 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.
- Melt the butter and mix with the ground black pepper, salt and BBQ spice.
- Baste some of the butter mixture on the bottom of a ovenproof dish.
- Baste the lamb with the remainder of the butter mixture and put the rosemary on top.
- Cover with tinfoil.
- Bake at 130C for 2,5 hours.
- Turn the heat up to 190C and bake for a further 1 hour.
- Remove the tinfoil and put the oven on grill (top element only) 230C.
- Grill for 5 minutes or until the top is lightly crisped.
ground black pepper, salt, spice, clove garlic, bacon, butter, rosemary, tinfoil
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/362598-roasted-leg-of-lamb (may not work)