How to Cook Appetizing Roast leg of Lamb

Roast leg of Lamb.

You can cook Roast leg of Lamb using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Roast leg of Lamb

1. It's 1.5 kg of leg of lamb (bone in).
2. It's of Oil.
3. It's of Salt.
4. Prepare of Pepper.
5. Prepare 2 tsp of dried thyme.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of fresh rosemary finely chopped.
7. You need 250 g of streaky bacon.
8. Prepare 2 of red onions.
9. It's 3 of bay leaves.
10. Prepare 500 ml of red wine.
11. It's 200 ml of water.

Roast leg of Lamb instructions

1. Drizzle some oil in a pan or griddle pan, salt and pepper the joint and seal on the pan on all sides.
2. Place in a roasting tray with a lib (you can use foil to cover if you don’t have a lid) and sprinkle the rosemary and thyme.
3. Cover with the streaky bacon. (I used normal bacon as didn’t have streaky in the fridge..
4. Add the onions (cut into wedges) and the bay leaves and the water and wine. Cover and cook in a preheated oven of 160’C for 3hours..
5. Serve with your choice of accompaniments. My potatoes were added to the cooking tray at the same time as the onions, if you wanted the same..