leg of lamb

[Slink]

so I bought a leg of lamb the other day, and im looking for some inspiration on how to cook it.

never cooked a lump of meat before except for a lump of pork in the slow cooker with cider.

any stuff I should cover it in and/or marinade in it.

my dad is going to be eating it and hate rosemary and anchovies so those are out.

and it weighs 1.5kg so how long should i cook it for? again, never done any meat in the oven before apart from sausages, so dont know what time to do it for.

[mattdaniels]

Oven tray on hob, bit of oil and butter, sear meat to get some colour on it. Lift meat out, chuck in a trivet of carrot celery spud red onion. sit meat back on it, cover in a bottle of merlot, two spoons of redcurrant jelly and 4 cloves garlic. 2ish hours at 140 ish, get a meat thermometer and when the middle of lamb is 60 degrees C its done so lift it out and cover. Blitz whats in the tray and reduce to make gravy.

[Slink]

sounds good, normally it gets done on its own no other things added when cooking so looking forward to this

[Pferdestarke]

Agree on the above. I'd add a couple of stock cubes to a pint of boiling water and add that in too. You can always reduce if necessary.

Better still with shoulder

Edited by Pferdestarke on Saturday 22 December 18:51

[chilistrucker]

i'm going to try the slow cooker with my leg of lamb.
smear it in olive oil and some rosemary, and pierce with some slithers of garlic.
pop in the pan to brown off for 5 mins, then into the slow cooker with a glass and a bit of red wine, and cook for 7-8 hours on low.
hopefully it will work ok

[Jer_1974]

Slow-roast lamb with chickpea mash

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2005/mar/20...

I cook this quite a bit.

[Slink]

well its in, and done a trivet of carrots and onions with some smashed garlic in and red wine, all wrapped up in tin foil.

hopefully will be done by 8ish.

[chilistrucker]

Slink said:

well its in, and done a trivet of carrots and onions with some smashed garlic in and red wine, all wrapped up in tin foil.

hopefully will be done by 8ish.

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