Best Recipe for Roast Shoulder of Lamb!

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: Approximately 4 hours

Lamb

Ingredients

  1. A large bunch of fresh rosemary
  2. 1 x 2kg shoulder of lamb
  3. Olive oil
  4. Salt and black pepper
  5. 1 bulb of garlic

Directions

  1. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celsius
  2. Using a sharp knife, make a number of cuts over the fatty side of the lamb
  3. Separate the garlic into cloves (although no need to peel them)
  4. Gather a roasting tray and lay half the rosemary and half the garlic cloves over the bottom of the tray
  5. Season the lamb with the olive oil and season with the salt and pepper
  6. Gather the lamb and place in in the tray on top of the rosemary and garlic
  7. Put the remainder of the rosemary and garlic on top of the lamb
  8. Cover the tray with aluminium foil
  9. Place into the oven and once in the oven, turn the temperature down to 170 degrees Celsius
  10. Cooking time is approximately 4 hours. You can tell if it is done by seeing if you can pull the meat apart easily with a couple of forks
  11. Remove the lamb from the oven once it is done and then place it on a chopping board, cover it with aluminium foil, then a tea towel, and leave it to rest