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Roast Leg Of Lamb In Hay and Lavender

Roast Leg Of Lamb In Hay and Lavender! It sounds unusual but it is so easy and tastes amazing. You can cook chicken like this too! Serve with a veal jus and fresh peas, broad beans, sugar snap peas, mange tout and wild garlic. James used lamb from Gower Salt Marsh Lamb.

Ingreadient :
    • 1 leg of lamb
    • 1 small bunch of lavender
    • Few sprigs of rosemary
    • Hay to cover the roasting tray
    • 125g butter, softened
    • Salt and pepper
    • 1 shallot, peeled and diced
    • 200g fresh peas
    • 200g broad beans
    • 200g sugar snap peas, chopped
    • 100g mange tout, chopped
    • 100g butter
    • 1 small bunch wild garlic
    • 1 lemon, juice only

    For the sauce

    • 200ml veal jus
    • 15g butter
    • 1 tsp sherry vinegar
Direction :
    1. Preheat the oven to 200C.
    2. Cover a large roasting tin with hay and rosemary and lavender, then pop the lamb on top. Brush over the butter, season, and roast for 1½ to 2 hours.
    3. Warm the butter and water, add the vegetables and warm through for 3 to 4 minutes. Finish with the wild garlic. Heat the jus in a pan, reduce by ½, and then finish with butter and vinegar.