Every time I return home to Australia from long term travelling, the meal I crave the most is a home-cooked roast lamb. This slow cooked lamb shoulder recipe is easy to prepare and cook.
It tastes best alongside roasted pumpkin, potatoes and some seasonal fresh vegetables.
Slow cooked lamb shoulder
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
- Shoulder of lamb, with bone.
- olive oil
- sea salt
- ground black pepper
- 1 whole bulb garlic , peeled & broken into cloves
- 1 handful fresh rosemary sprigs
- 2 red onions, peeled and quartered
- 2 carrots, halved and chopped lengthways.
- 2 celery sticks, cut in half
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 handful fresh thyme sprigs
- ½ bottle red wine
- 2 tbsp of flour
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 150ºC.
- Rub the lamb with olive oil, sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Using a small sharp knife, make small incisions all over the lamb and push rosemary leaves and some quartered cloves of garlic into each incision.
- Heat a large skillet/pan over medium heat, add olive oil. Once hot, place shoulder of lamb in pan and seal each side, trying to get a nice golden colour. This should only take a few minutes, then remove from heat.
- Take a large roasting tray and add the onions, carrots, celery, garlic and herbs to the tray, making a bed for your lamb to sit on.
- Drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper.
- Add a half bottle of red wine, tomato puree and approx 1 cup of water.
- Place the shoulder of lamb on top of vegetables and pour any resting juices into roasting tray.
- Cover the tray tightly with 2 layers of foil and place into the oven.
- Cook for 5-6 hours.
- Remove from oven and place lamb shoulder on a platter, covering with foil again to keep warm.
- Add the flour to juices in roasting tray, stir and bring to the boil.
- Strain the gravy through a very fine sieve into a clean pan, bring it back to the boil and season or add more flour for thicker gravy if required.
- Serve with roasted vegetables.
What meal do you crave the most when you have been away from Australia?
Anything would be better than a dinner with Tom Cruise – hahaha!! But nothing beats a good lamb roast smothered with fresh garlic and rosemary 🙂
An Tom cruise waffling on about Scientology
Toni lamb roast ^