Baked lamb leg in the oven - a great dish for a Sunday family dinner or celebration. The rich aroma of lamb meat, complemented by the fragrance of spices and fragrant herbs, fills the living room and makes family members want to chat in a close circle at a beautifully and richly laid table.
So, we are preparing a unique dish, Baked Lamb Leg. We clean the leg of the young lamb from the film, wash it and dry it with a cotton towel. Then we make deep cuts for the cloves of garlic along the entire length of the legs. Salt well on all sides, sprinkle with ground black and red peppers and, covering with foil, set for two or two and a half hours in an oven preheated to 180 ° C. Garnish for an amazing family dish “ Baked lamb leg in foil” can serve as a green salad, potatoes, white beans, dried fruits with couscous, etc.
It would be nice to cut the potatoes for the side dish in half and bake, salted, in olive oil. And here is how to cook white beans for the dish “Baked lamb leg in the oven”. Four hundred and fifty grams of beans are poured into eight glasses of water and boiled for fifteen minutes. Then the water is drained, and the beans are set aside for easy swelling. At this time, we drown on low heat in a large capacity a tablespoon of butter or margarine. Add finely chopped onions to the oil and fry until soft. We put in this pan beans, chopped garlic clove in the garlic, two small tomatoes and cumin, peeled from seeds and peels. Fill all of the above with two glasses of water, close the lid and put on fire for an hour and a half. Do not forget to carefully stir and add water if necessary. Once the beans are cooked, put another tablespoon of butter (butter) in a saucepan and stir to melt it. Now put the beans around the lamb leg and decorate with greens. Even if one of the guests does not like beans, he will eat this with pleasure.
If you lightly marinate the lamb meat, you will get an unusually tasty baked lamb leg in the oven. Grind finely chopped onions, two tablespoons of chopped parsley, one tablespoon of chopped thyme and rosemary, a teaspoon of salt, two crushed cloves of garlic and black freshly ground pepper in a blender. We add there three tablespoons of water, a third of a glass of lemon juice and mix everything until puree. We rub this mixture into the lamb leg, put it in a special bag and put it in a cold place for pickling for four hours, turning it from time to time.
After four hours, turn on the oven and heat it to 220 ° C. Lamb leg is baked (do not remove it from the bag) in the oven on a baking sheet, greased with olive oil, for fifteen minutes. Then we reduce the temperature in the oven to 170 ° C and continue baking the leg for another half hour. After removing a leg from the oven, remove the bag from it and wrap it in foil. After fifteen minutes, the lamb leg can be sliced and served.
I suggest you cook an incredibly delicious dish for a family dinner - “Baked lamb leg in the oven with anchovies”.
We make deep cuts in the mutton leg. Peel and finely chop the garlic. We turn anchovies into rolls. We stuff leg with garlic, parsley and anchovies. We spread the stuffed leg of the lamb on a baking sheet, pour oil from the jar where the anchovies were, pepper and salt to taste and put in the oven, preheated to 200 ° C. We bake for about two hours, then cover the leg of the lamb with foil and keep it in the oven for another fifteen to twenty minutes. We take out the meat from the oven and cut it into pieces. Pour juice from meat into a container, add dry red wine to it and, bringing this mixture to a boil, boil for several minutes. Sliced meat is laid out on a dish, poured with wine sauce and served on the table with herbs.
Appetizing baked lamb leg in the oven is another reason to gather at a friendly table and have a great time in the family circle.