HERBED LEG OF LAMB
Ingredients
- 1 x 2kg/4lb 8oz leg of lamb
- small bunch oregano
- leaves picked
- 1 tbsp rosemary leaves
- 4 garlic cloves
- halved
- 1 lemon
- zest and juice
- 1 orange
- zest and juice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp sea salt flakes
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4.
- Sit the lamb in a large roasting tin
- skin-side up
- and use the tip of a sharp knife to make many incisions all over the skin.
- Put the oregano
- rosemary
- garlic
- lemon and orange zest
- 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- olive oil and salt in a bowl and blend using a stick blender (alternatively
- use a small food processor). Spoon this over the lamb and rub in well. Leave at room temperature for 45 minutes.
- Pour ½cm freshly boiled water into the bottom of the roasting tin and roast for 1 hour 40 minutes. Check after an hour to add more water if needed and cover with foil if the meat is beginning to catch. Just before the time is up
- remove the lamb from the oven and check it is done to your liking
- either using a probe and the temperatures listed in the tips below or piercing with a knife and taking a peek.
- Remove the cooked lamb from the oven
- cover loosely with foil
- and rest for 15–30 minutes
- checking every now and again
- before transferring to a board to carve.

