Roast Lamb Recipe
A delicious, juicy lamb roast.
Ingredients
2
kg
leg of lamb
1
bulb garlic
1/2
bunch fresh rosemary
1 1/2
kg
potatoes
1
lemon
zested
olive oil
To make the mint sauce
1
bunch fresh mint
1
tsp
sugar
3
tbsp
white wine vinegar
Instructions
Preheat an oven to 200C.
Break the garlic bulb into cloves and peel three.
Chop half the rosemary leaves.
Peel and halve the potatoes.
Crush the peeled garlic, chopped rosemary, lemon zest together.
Add a few tablespoons of olive oil.
Season the lamb with salt and pepper and then rub the oil mixture over the meat.
Place on the hot bars of the oven to begin to roast.
Parboil the potatoes for two minutes.
Drain and put them in an oven friendly tray.
Add the remaining rosemary leaves, whole garlic cloves and a goof amount of olive oil to the tray and toss with the potatoes.
Place under the roasting lamb.
Finely chop the mint leaves and mix with sugar, salt, a tablespoon of hot water and the vinegar.
After an hour and half of it cooking, take the lamb out of the oven.
Top the lamb with the mint sauce and serve with the potatoes.