Baked leg of lamb with spices
8 servings
120 minutes
The recipe was shared with us by the chef of "Honest Kitchen" Sergey Eroshenko.
1
Buy a lamb leg. If you don't plan to cook it right away and put it in the fridge, take the meat out a couple of hours before cooking to let it reach room temperature.
2
Cut the garlic cloves in half to make six pieces.
- Garlic: 3 cloves
3
Make small cuts with a knife in the soft parts of the leg (six cuts) and place half a clove in each.
- Garlic: 3 cloves
4
Rub the leg with salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary. Then with olive oil.
- Salt: to taste
- Ground black pepper: to taste
- Thyme: 1 teaspoon
- Rosemary: 1 teaspoon
- Olive oil: 2 tablespoons
5
Preheat the oven to 80 degrees.
6
Place the leg on a baking tray and put it in the middle of the oven for 30 minutes.
7
Then increase the temperature to 120 degrees and bake for another 30 minutes.
8
Then increase the temperature to 180 and keep the lamb leg for another 15 minutes. During this time, every 3-4 minutes, take out the tray and baste the leg with its own juices.
9
In total, the leg should be in the oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
10
Take the meat out of the oven and let it rest for another 7 minutes.