Roast Leg of Lamb

📝 Ingredients

• 1 leg of lamb – 2 – 2.5kg
• 2 tsp applewood smoked salt
• 2 tsp ground coriander
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
• good handful of fresh rosemary on the stalk
• 2 whole heads of garlic
• 1 lemon cut in half
• Salt and pepper

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Pre heat the oven to the highest it will go.
2. 2Mix the salt, coriander, cumin and pepper and rub the leg of lamb well with the mix
3. 3Cut one head of garlic in half sideways and place at the bottom of a large oven dish with sides along with the 2 lemon halves.
4. 4Scatter half the rosemary stalks into the pan and place the lamb on top of this bed of aromatics.
5. 5Break the cloves of the other head of garlic and scatter these around and on top of the meat along with the rest of the rosemary.
6. 6Seal the whole tray tightly with heavy-duty aluminium foil.
7. 7Place in the hot oven and leave for 5 minutes and then reduce the temperature to 170C and leave it to roast for 4 hours. Do not open the meat at all during this period.
8. 8After 4 hours remove the lamb from the oven and let it rest for 20 minutes while still tightly covered.
9. 9Once the meat has been removed from the pan quickly make a gravy.
10. 10Skim of the fat, mash a few of the cooked cloves of garlic and heat with the pan juices and some lamb stock.
11. 11Adapted from Jamie Oliver