Last week I posted a challenge to all you bloggers, what are your favorite foods that you want to challenge me with? Bokkie gave me today’s secret ingredient: lamb!
Leg of lamb was the choise cut for dinner with the grandparents. Salt and pepper the entire surface of the leg, this one was about 4 pounds, then sear all sides in a hot pan suitable to be transferred to the oven. Pre-heat the oven to 400°F.
Roast the leg for 30 minutes. Then add a glass of red wine (we were having a Bonterra ’08 Cabernet Sauvignon to drink, supposedly with fruit and pepper notes and was not too dry) and sprinkle herbs de Provence over the meat. Return the leg promptly to the hot oven to roast once again for 20-30 minutes. Roughly allow 20 minutes per pound, if left without searing it first. I removed the leg at 70 minutes, let it rest for ten minutes before carving. Use those drippings with a slurry of cornstarch in some more wine of course, and bring it to a bubble on the stove. Do be mindful that pan it hot!
Leg of Lamb
The next day, I was amazed there were left overs of the lamb. All the more to experiment with my dear!
So as the crazy chefs seem to invent dishes in kitchen stadium, I looked at the lamb with a quizzical face… what are you going to become? The answer was homey and simple. Grilled cheese sandwiches.
Thin slices of lamb were piled on wheat bread spread with Dijon mustard. Some homemade pickles were finely diced and sharp aged cheddar cheese was shredded using a box grater. I just wish we had a better loaf to include in this dish, oh well!
Throw this into your favorite grilling pan to toast both sides to a golden crisp. Slice and serve.
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You will never believe this- but i had decided that i need to look at getting some Lamb for Saturday. I love Lamb, and have never actually done anything with it. Going to do it with confidence now…… will just need to do all the conversions.
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Did you get the lamb? How did it turn out?
There was NONE left for sandwiches!!!! Added fresh sprigs of rosemary and tons of garlic. Was very nice! Don’t know how it ended up that way because christmas was a little bit of a disaster. How was yours? Xx
I would have used much more rosemary than I had, but my poor little plant couldn’t keep up to me in the kitchen. I’m afraid it will die if I pick off every last sprig and leaf! Most of the rosemary ended up on a rack of lamb, which was made along with the leg for dinner with the parents. And yes, loads of garlic 🙂 I’ m glad yours turned out and vanished.
Christmas was great, we visited so much that I hardly had time to cook! My little boy was amazed that Santa brought him a firetruck, just as he had written in his letter. We didn’t have the time to mail it to the North Pole and left the note along with the cookies on Christmas Eve. Santa happened to know exactly what to bring from his workshop 🙂 I’m sure your Christmas was all good in the end, I’ll have to check your blog!