Lamb is considered a dish of eastern cuisine. Indeed, not a single holiday of our eastern friends goes without this meat product on the table. They know how to choose the lamb and cook this meat.
The most valuable is the meat of young sheep or sheep - up to 18 months. Also very tasty meat from well-fed three-year-old sheep. You can determine the age of a sheep by the color of the meat. If it is light red in color, then it is either a well-fed sheep or young. If the meat is dark red, then these are old sheep, it is better not to buy such meat.
All housewives know that lamb has an unpleasant specific smell. In order to get rid of it, it is necessary to marinate the meat. This can be done as follows. We divide the meat into portions, cut the onion in half rings. In lamb with onions, add salt, pepper. It is good to add a seasoning of hops-suneli, as well as a couple of basil leaves and a small bunch of dill. All this must be sprinkled with lemon juice. Instead, vinegar diluted in half with water can be used. Keep the meat in the marinade for at least an hour, and if you have time, it is possible to leave the meat for a whole day. One of the most delicious dishes is lamb baked in the oven after pickling.
Cooking the dish “Lamb baked in the oven”
In order to cook it, take the pickled meat, put it on a baking sheet covered with foil. Cut fresh tomato into rings, cut green onions. On top of the lamb, put mugs of tomatoes, onions and send the lamb for an hour in an oven preheated to 200 degrees. Somewhere 20 minutes before the readiness, you can sprinkle the meat with grated cheese and then bake it already with the foil open. In order to check the mutton for readiness, it is necessary, like any other meat, to pierce it with a fork or a toothpick. If the juice that comes out of the meat is transparent, then the lamb is ready.
Lamb baked in the oven with wine is very tasty. In order to prepare such a dish, you need to take a piece of young meat and stuff it with carrots and garlic. First cut the garlic and carrots into small rectangular pieces. With a knife, make deep cuts in the meat, into which then put the garlic and carrots. After this procedure, grate the lamb thoroughly with spices and salt and pepper. Then foil is laid out in the form, on top of it is meat and everything is poured with wine. It will need half a glass. Wine for lamb is best taken semi-sweet red. The meat is wrapped in foil and placed in a preheated oven for two hours. The meat should be very juicy and soft.
A very hearty and tasty dish is lamb with potatoes in the oven. To cook such an appetizing dish, you need to peel the potatoes and cut it into slices. Cut garlic, dill into small pieces, add salt, pepper to them, mix everything. Cut lamb into small strips of medium thickness and length. The meat must be pre-marinated. The baking sheet is covered with foil, lubricated with a small amount of vegetable oil. A layer of potatoes is laid out on the foil, meat, onion, cut into rings, is placed on top. Then everything is covered with a mixture of garlic and herbs, and on top of a layer of potatoes. Now you need to wrap the foil and send the lamb into the oven. This dish should be baked for 40-60 minutes. The lamb in the foil in the oven is very juicy and tasty.
Here is another recipe for this dish. Take the onion, cut into rings. Finely chop four cloves of garlic. Pre-soak the meat in ordinary cold water for about 2-3 hours. We stuff the meat with garlic, pepper, salt, and coat with mayonnaise. Grease the foil with butter. We spread the meat, onion on top and carefully wrap. Bake at 200 degrees for 40-50 minutes. Lamb baked in the oven is ready! Enjoy your meal!