Marhaba! New Year’ Eve is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate this holiday by learning to cook a tasty dish for family and friends? Given it’s the season for giving and loving, I want to share the recipe my wife and I are planning to use for our New Year’s Eve dinner this year! We’re having a small group of friends for dinner and the following day we’re celebrating with our families!! We’re serving ‘Roasted Leg of Lamb,’ (ساق غنم مشوي) which is a great and popular Middle Eastern dish. We’re cooking it the Lebanese way, excluding some spices and including other scrumptious ingredients. The Lebanese way is also the method our mothers use to prepare this excellent one-of-a-kind dish. We think that is a relatively easy dish to prepare. It does take some time however. But have you ever had a decent tasty dish that did not take some time to prepare?
Roasted Leg of Lamb by Ernesto Andrade | Flickr
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: Around 5 hours
Ingredients
- 1 leg of lamb (ساق غنم)
- ¾ cup of melted salted butter (زبدة مملحة مذوّبة )
- 4 tablespoons salt
- 2 teaspoons rosemary (إكليل الجبل)
- 2 teaspoons basil (حبق)
- 5 teaspoons black pepper
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon (قرفة)
- ½ teaspoon cumin (كمون)
Raw Leg of Lamb by David Singleton | Flickr
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees
- Combine the melted butter with the spices in a large bowl to make a baste. (you can add some flour if you want the baste thicker)
- Lightly baste the leg of lamb with a cooking brush.
- Cover the leg of lamb with aluminum foil in a deep roasting pan.
- Cook initially for 2.5 hours, but make sure to baste the lamb every 30 minutes.
- Remove the aluminum foil and increase the oven temperature to 375 degrees.
- Cook the leg of lamb uncovered for 2.5 hours and make sure to baste it every 30 minutes till the skin becomes golden.
Slow Roasted Lamb Leg by My Aching Head | Flickr
Sahtein!!!
صَحتين
Stay tuned for upcoming posts!!
