Easter lamb with garlic-nut sauce
Lamb is a traditional dish on the Easter table. Most often, young lamb or lamb are chosen, so the meat does not require long cooking.
Ingredients
Servings 4-6- 1 hind leg of lamb, 1.7–2 kg
- 1 sprig thyme
- 6 garlic cloves
- juice of half a lemon
- olive oil
- salt, freshly ground black pepper
- 200 g white bread
- 100 ml white wine vinegar
- 5-7 sprigs of mint
- 1 sprig thyme
- 1 head of young garlic
- 100 g of hazelnuts
- 200 ml of olive oil
Cooking
Step 1
For the sauce, cut the crusts off the bread. Put the crumb in a bowl, pour vinegar and 1.5 cups of cold drinking water, leave for 15 minutes.
Step 2
Remove green leaves from branches. Crush, peel and chop the garlic along with herbs, put in a blender and beat, gradually adding nuts.
Step 3
Mix the mass of the blender with the squeezed bread. Gradually, without turning off the motor, pour in the olive oil. Salt and stir. Let the sauce brew for 2-3 hours.
Step 4
Trim excess fat from the leg of lamb (leave a little) and remove the membranes. Rub the leg with salt and pepper.
Step 5
Remove the thyme leaves from the sprig. Peel and finely chop the garlic along with thyme, mix with 3 tbsp. l. olive oil and lemon juice, rub the leg with this mixture on all sides. Cover with foil and marinate 2 hours.
Step 6
Put the marinated leg on a wire rack set in a baking sheet and bake first at 250 ° C for 15 minutes, then at 160 ° C for 50-60 minutes. Transfer to a plate, cover with foil and let rest for 20 minutes. Serve the leg with sauce.