Meat & PoultryDifficulty: easy

Perna de Cordeiro Assada (Roast Leg of Lamb)

Name: Perna de Cordeiro Assada (Roast Leg of Lamb)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 150 min
Total time: 170 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 1 leg of lamb), bone-in; 8 garlic cloves, slivered; 4 tbsp coarse salt; 3 sprigs rosemary; 3 bay leaves; 150 ml white wine; 100 ml olive oil; 1 kg potatoes, quartered; Black pepper

Sunday roast Portuguese-style: leg of lamb slow-roasted with garlic, rosemary and white wine until it falls off the bone.

Prep Time

150

Cook Time

Servings

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1Preheat the oven to 200 °C.

2Make small incisions all over the lamb with a knife; push a garlic sliver into each.

3Rub the leg with olive oil, coarse salt, pepper, rosemary and crumbled bay leaf.

4Place in a roasting tray; pour the wine around (not over) it.

5Roast 20 minutes, then lower to 160 °C.

6Add the potatoes tossed in oil and pan juices; roast 2 hours more, basting every 30 minutes.

7Rest 15 minutes covered before carving; serve with the strained pan juices.