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Roast Leg of Lamb and "Minty" Au Jus
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(Recipe ID: 625)
Serves 6
Preparation time: 4 Hours and 10 minutes
Source: Vito De Carolis
Simple and savory recipe that allmost cooks itself.
Ingredients
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- 4 sprigs Fresh Mint
- 1 Tablespoon Butter
- 1 Leg Lamb (about 8 to 10 pounds)
- 3 Dry Cured pieces of bacon
- Fine Sea Salt and Fresh Ground White Peppercorn, to taste *
Instructions
- Place mint in the bottom of a well buttered roasting pan. Put lamb's leg on top. Spread rashers (bacon) over meat.
- Cook in the oven at 350°F, for about 4 hours. Baste the joint from time to time.
- At the end of cooking time, remove lamb and bacon and keep warm.
- Skim off all fat from cooking juice in roasting pan and remove mint. Adjust season with salt and pepper.
- Serve cooking juice with the lamb.
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