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This recipe for stuffed leg of lamb is prepared by slowly roasting it with a pungent stuffing and serving it with a tasty sauce. Easter typically falls in early spring and is the traditional time when lamb is served but, without a doubt, the best time to eat lamb is late spring onward. A boneless leg of lamb is butterflied, rolled up around a spinach and goat cheese stuffing, and roasted to savory perfection to make a magnificent main dish that's fit for a formal dinner or that special holiday meal.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook stuffed leg of lamb using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Stuffed leg of lamb:
- Make ready 1 Leg of Lamb; deboned
- Get 1 lb Cherry, grape or whatever small good tomato
- Take 1 Onion; chopped to desired size
- Prepare 1 Fresh rosemary
- Get 1 1/2 cup Raw spinach
- Prepare 1 tbsp Basil, Parsley or your favorite herb
- Get 1/3 cup Ricotta cheese (I used fat free)
- Prepare 1 Olive oil
- Get 1 Salt & Pepper
- Make ready 5 Garlic cloves; chopped to desired size
The hay needs to be free of pesticides - the type for pets is ideal. This Leg of Lamb is stuffed with a flavorful herb paste called gremolata, and encased in a flavorful herb crust. It can be made ahead, and placed in the oven right before Easter dinner. It starts with a boneless leg of lamb that has been butterflied.
Steps to make Stuffed leg of lamb:
- Preheat oven to 400º
- Layer tomatoes, garlic, onions, 1/2 the herbs salt and pepper to taste onto a foil lined pan drizzle with olive oil and put in preheated oven for 10 minutes. When done let cool.
- Reduce oven heat to 375º
- Lay lamb flat (fat side down), salt and pepper to taste. Put the spinach on top of the meat and then put the tomato mixture over the spinach, 4-5 spoons ricotta cheese over the top of the tomato mixture. Roll up and tie together with kitchen twine.
- When meat is tied together so nothing (or almost nothing) can leak out season the top side (fat side) with remaining herbs salt and pepper. Remove foil from previous pan and put lamb fat side up in pan.
- Cook at 375º for 15 minutes; reduce heat to 350º for 45 minutes to an hour.
- Let rest fo 20 minutes before cutting into.
Rolling the lamb around the filling means you get some of those bright flavors in just about every bite. For the best flavor, stuff the lamb the day before you… Have you ever roasted a leg of lamb? It may sound intimidating, but the sweet little secret is that leg of lamb is actually one of the easiest, most foolproof cuts While I've cooked lamb on many occasions, cooking a whole leg can still feel intimidating. It's a large, expensive cut of meat, and I always wonder. Stuff leg of lamb and tie securely; sprinkle meat with rosemary.
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