Baked Lamb

Baked Lamb

Ingredients:

1.    Mutton leg: 2 kg.

2.    Garlic : 4 cloves.

3.    Black pepper, ground : As required

4.    Potatoes, sliced:  1 kg.

5.    Onion, sliced:, 1 no.

6.    Bay leaf  : 1 no.

7.    Thyme : 2 sprigs.

8.    Vegetable or chicken stock : 300 ml.

9.    Black pepper, ground : As required

10. Butter : 40 gms.

11. Olive oil for greasing : As required

12. Salt : As required

Method:

1.  Cut small incisions in the mutton and insert thinly sliced pieces of 2 garlic

     cloves into the incisions.

2. Pre-heat the oven and grease a baking dish with 15 gms butter.

3. Crush remaining garlic, arrange the potatoes, onions, garlic, herbs, salt and

    pepper in the buttered dish.

4. Add enough stock to just cover, dot with remaining butter, cover with foil and

    bake in the oven for 1 hour.

5. Grease a heavy frying pan with a little oil, add the mutton and cook quickly until

    browned all over.

6. Put the lamb on top of the potatoes and cover with a foil and bake for 1 1/2

    hours.

7. Remove the foil and bake open just 15 minutes before the cooking time so that

    it browns well.

8. Slice the mutton, garnish with parsley leaves and serve hot with potatoes.