Traditional Aussie Lamb

== Description ==
* Serves 4 - 6
== Ingredients ==
* 2 kg (4½ lb) leg of lamb
* 8 cloves garlic, chopped
* fresh rosemary sprigs
* 1 cup olive oil
* salt, pepper
* 4 large potatoes
* 8 pieces of pumpkin
* 2 leeks, cut in half
* 4 bacon rashers, crisply fried
* 60 g (2 oz) butter
* 3 tablespoons oil
* salt, thyme
* 2 tablespoons plain flour
* 2¼ cups beef stock
* 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
* 5 tablespoons red wine
* 1 red chilli
== Directions ==
# Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
# Cut small slits all over the skin of the leg of lamb.
# Insert garlic pieces and rosemary sprigs.
# Brush lamb with oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
# Fill a baking dish halfway with water and place a wire rack on top and then put the lamb on the dish.
# Roast for about 1½ hours or until cooked as desired, basting often with the pan juices.
# Peel potatoes, cut in half and score them with a fork.
# Combine butter, oil, salt and thyme.
# Toss potatoes in the mixture.
# Take potatoes out and keep mixture for later.
# Place potatoes around the leg of lamb after the lamb has been cooking for about 40 minutes.
# Roast for 50 minutes, brushing halfway through with a little of the butter mixture.
# Toss pumpkin pieces in the mixture and place next to the roast after it has been cooking for 50 minutes.
# Wrap 1 bacon rasher around each half of leek.
# Place leeks next to pumpkins after roast has been baking for 70 minutes.
# When everything is done, take the rack off the baking dish and place the rack on an oven proof tray.
# Return to oven to keep warm.
=== Gravy ===
# Place the baking dish with the juices from the meat on the stove top
# Discard all but 3 tablespoons of the juices.
# Heat the dish, stir in the flour and cook until brown.
# Gradually add beef stock, Worcestershire sauce, red chilli and wine taking a swig as you go.
# Stir until the mixture boils and thickens, then simmer for 2 minutes.
# Slice the meat and arrange everything on plates.
# Pour the gravy over the meat.
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Category:Australian Meat Dishes
Category:Bacon Recipes
Category:Beef stock and broth Recipes
Category:Lamb leg Recipes
Category:Leek Recipes
Category:Potato Recipes
Category:Pumpkin Recipes
Category:Red wine Recipes