Italian Roast Leg of Lamb | Jamie Oliver

We're going to do a beautiful roast lamb, easy gravy. We're going to an amazing Italian version of a kind of mint sauce that you're gonna absolutely love. So first things first, got a leg of lamb from you butchers. If you love good food its all about the leg. Now flavours, erm, rosemary beautiful just pick off some little spruce. Rosemary and lamb two peas in a pod. Really, really good. Three cloves of garlic. Slice the garlic like that. Garlic there. Rosemary there. And there's one more flavour this absolutely going to divide you people but you've got to trust me. Anchovies. Now some of you will be going oh I don't like anchovies. They smell fishy and all that business It's not there to be like a particular flavour. It's there to be a seasoning. if you're clever about it you'll never ever taste it. Slice up the anchovy into like little thin bits. So there's your three flavours. Then if you look at the leg of lamb here, can you see how it's gone kind of red here and white here and that's basically where the separate little bits of meat kinda join. So what I wanna do quite so of you know bravely is get the tip of this knife here and just stick it in and give a little twist up in between those little gaps and then you stick your finger in and then get one one little piece of anchovy, one little piece of rosemary and one little fleck of garlic What happens in this is, when the lamb cooks the fat kind of starts to melt. That makes the Rosemary fry and the anchovy completely disperses into sort of a juice. And of course the garlic sauce thundering away given a good old hum of flavour. You can even nick some of this anchovy oil just put a little bit over the top and have a good old slap around. Get yourself some salt and a little pepper. Look at that, beautiful leg of Lamb. Put your roasted meat on top of the rack now. The hot air can kind of get all around the lamb and roast the lamb quite evenly. What we can do is we can prepare for the most incredible gravy. Get two or three onions. Peal them half them, slice them up, as that lamb cooks, all the lovely sort of sticky goodness comes out of it. And things like onions when they roast or slowly cook they go sweet and delicious and sort-of jammy and gorgeous. So I'm gonna put all the leftover bits of garlic, anchovy, rosemary and all of that onions I'm gonna put that straight into the tray, cooking for an hour/ hour and a half That is going to give us the preparation to make an incredible and easy gravy. Look at that beautiful. we've got all those lovely sweet caramelized onions and stuff get rid of as much fat as you can you'll be left with about a tablespoon in the tray. Looking good. All we have to do to make this gold now is a heaped tablespoon of flour. Going to whack it straight on a medium-high heat. I'll break that frying with half a wine glass of red wine give a little shake up, the wine will cook away. You can see immediately that it will start to thicken. This is like the secret ingredient with any dark meat. A little bit of jam like this going in will just bring all those flavours together. It's going to be really really good. I'm going to give it a little move around like this. Pint of chicken stock and then you have a lovely onion gravy. So I'm going to turn it down to a sort-of medium-low. It will start ticking away. When it looks good it's ready to eat. You might just wanna season it with salt and pepper. Let's come back to this lamb here. You can actually pour out any juice straight into the gravy. That will help give a flavour and thicken it. So what I want to do for this lamb is make a really good sauce. It's called Salsa Verde if you like mint source: this is another world. I'm gonna use a little chopper, bunch of mint, parsley, a little half clove of garlic, one anchovy fillet, one little gherkin in there, capers just a tiny little teaspoon What I wanna do is just chop it up You can see in there it's nice and fine, nice and rustic. Im going to add about a tablespoon of good olive oil a little teaspoon of mustard a pinch of salt and pepper and a swig of red wine vinegar about a teaspoon and a half. And honestly, it turns, literally, everything you put it on savory into something beautiful. So Salsa Verde is done, the lamb is done, I'm serving this beautiful dish with some smashed vegetables. Swede and potatoes. Push that down like that to one side. Bosh! My lovely roast lamb, like that. You've got a beautiful gravy. A lovely new look at roast lamb, smashed veg Salsa Verde, and a beautiful onion gravy. Gorgeous. if you love this, hit the thumbs up button. Thank you very much. Bye!

Channel: Jamie Oliver

Views: 1,957,596

Rating: 4.8868637 out of 5

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Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 29 2015