Roast Lamb French Style

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 30 g butter
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 500 g onions, sliced
• 1 (1 1/2 kg) leg of lamb
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced
• salt and pepper
• 1 kg potato
• 1 cup beef stock, cube is ok
• parsley

Recipe

• 1 heat the butter and oil in a frying pan; add the onions and cook over a gentle heat until softened and just starting to colour.
• 2 place the potatoes in the bottom of a roasting pan, spoon the cooked onions over them; season with salt and pepper.
• 3 make small incisions all over the lamb and insert the garlic slices; place the lamb on a rack over the onions and potatoes. season the leg well salt and pepper.
• 4 pour the stock over the potatoes and roast in a hot oven (200c) for the first 20 minutes, then lower the temperature to moderated (180c) and cook a further hour. this will give you medium cooked lamb, if you like your lamb a little better done, cook for a further 40 minutes.
• 5 carve the lamb in thick slices, lay it over the potatoes and onions, sprinkle with parsley and serve it in the dish it was cooked in yum.