Roast Lamb a la Mum
- 1 each leg of lamb
- 2 each lemons
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 x flour, all-purpose
- 12 small rosemary sprigs
- 500 grams potatoes peeled
- 200 grams onions brown
- 100 grams butter, unsalted
- 750 ml beef stock prefer veal stock if possible
- 15 each mint leaves
- 1 x salt
- 1 x black pepper freshly ground
- 1 x parsley leaves chopped, for garnish
- Preheat oven to maximum temperature.
- Trim lamb of all fat and sinew.
- Rub with juice of 1 1/2 lemons, then with flour.
- Season and make 12 small cuts into the lamb, 1centimeter deep.
- Peel garlic and cut into 12 long slivers.
- Insert one of these slivers into each cut along with a sprig of rosemary.
- Push in with top of knife.
- Set aside.
- Slice potatoes and onion into 1/4 centimeter slices.
- Melt half the butter in a roasting tray and toss vegetables in it.
- Add 500 millilitres of the stock.
- Put rack in roasting tray and put lamb on top.
- Cook in preheated oven until it reaches 75C on the meat thermometer (for medium rare).
- Chop mint finely amd mix with juice of half of one of the lemons and rest of the butter.
- When lamb is redy let it rest, loosely covered, in a warm place for 10 minutes.
- Strain pan juices carefully into pan and set vegetables aside in a warm place.
- Add the remaining stock to the pan, degrease and boil over a high heat until thickened.
- Whisk in mint butter bit by bit.
- Season.
- Slice lamb.
- Put vegetables on plates, top with lamb and spoon sauce over.
- Garnish with chopped parsley.
lamb, lemons, garlic, flour, rosemary, onions brown, butter, beef, mint, salt, black pepper, parsley
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/roast-lamb-mum-37705 (may not work)