Recipe: Tasty Roast Leg of Lamb

Roast Leg of Lamb.

You can have Roast Leg of Lamb using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Roast Leg of Lamb

1. Prepare 1 of leg of lamb, about 2kg.
2. It's 2-3 cloves of garlic, peeled and cut lengthways.
3. It's sprigs of fresh rosemary.
4. You need of English mustard powder (optional).
5. Prepare 2 sticks of celery.
6. You need 1 of onion, peeled.
7. Prepare 1 of carrot, peeled.
8. It's glass of dry vermouth or white wine.
9. Prepare of salt and black pepper.

Roast Leg of Lamb instructions

1. Cut slits into the lamb with a sharp pointed knife and push sprigs of rosemary and slivers of garlic inside. Sprinkle mustard powder over the top if you have some, then lots of black pepper and salt. Preheat the oven to 220C/Gas 7..
2. Cut the onion into four and the celery and carrot into halves. Pour some olive oil into a roasting tin and add the vegetables, turning in the oil and then arranging in a kind of platform. Add any left over garlic and rosemary and season..
3. Rest the lamb on top then place in the hot oven. Roast for 15-20 minutes until the top is starting to brown, then turn the heat down to 190C/Gas 5. Add a glass of vermouth (or wine, you can use red instead if you prefer) and a glass of water..
4. Return to the oven and cook for an hour, if you'd like the meat to be slightly pink, an hour and a half if you don't. Allow to rest for 30 minutes..
5. At the bottom of the roasting tray you should have a delicious gravy that doesn't need much more than straining into a pan and reheating. Slice the lamb and serve..