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Made this a couple of years ago based on a Jamie Oliver recipe a friend gave me (I find him far too irritating to have any of his books, though I suspect his recipes are quite good). This time I also used another recipe here and took the bits I liked from both.
Ingredients
- leg of lamb (think mine was, er, 3kg! lots of leftovers!)
- 3 red onions cut up roughly
- 6 carrots, chopped into largish chunks
- 4 parsnips, ditto
- a bulb of garlic, split into cloves
- fresh rosemary
- 1 bottle white wine
Method
Heat oven to 200C. Chop up veg and lay in roasting tin with rosemary. Lay lamb on top. Roast for 30 min.
Take it out, turn oven down to 180, pour in wine, cover with foil. Roast for another 3.5 hours.
Take it out, take foil off, roast for another hour, same temperature.
The results were magnificent, even if I do say so myself! The lamb was great and the vegetables had caramelised very nicely. The wine had reduced to form a pretty good sauce. Very easy and very good for entertaining. Realistically serves 6 but we guzzled most of it between 4 of us and I have some leftover lamb which we are going to turn into a curry this evening!
The Jamie Oliver recipe includes potatoes and celeriac but not parsnips. The other recipe uses butternut squash and cherry tomatoes. Both use carrots, the parsnips were my own touch as I am something of a parsnip addict. So I guess you can pretty much use whatever veg you like! Highly recommended.







