ROAST LAMB
Ingredients
1 leg
or shoulder of lamb, about 1.5kg-2kg
2
cloves garlic, sliced
Fresh
rosemary
Potatoes
Carrots
Cabbage
1 tsp
cornflour
1
tbsp fresh mint leaves
1 tsp
sugar
2 tsp
white wine vinegar
Equipment
2 roasting
tins
Vegetable
knife
Peeler
Saucepan
steamer
1. Place the meat in a roasting tin and make small slashes in the skin with a knife.
Into these slashes push slices of garlic and rosemary. Put the meat into a hot
oven at 200 for 20 minutes than turn the heat down to 180 and roast for 20
minutes per 500g.
2. Peel the potatoes and put in a saucepan of
water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Put 1 tbsp sunflower oil or goose fat into a
roasting tin and put in the oven to get
hot. Drain the potatoes and put in the
roasting tin ensuring that they are coated in fat.
3. When the meat is cooked remove the meat from
the oven and put it on a plate, covered with foil, to rest. Use that tin to
make the gravy.
4. To make the mint sauce: chop the mint leaves, add sugar, vinegar and
1 tbsp boiling water and stir well.
5.
Turn the oven heat up to 190 to crisp the potatoes.
6. Peel carrots, cut them into circles or
matchsticks and place in a saucepan of
water. Bring it to the boil and cook the carrots for 5 minutes. Shred a cabbage
or cut up broccoli and place in a steamer over the carrots to steam for 5 minutes.
Drain the carrots, reserving the cooking water.
7.
Using the roasting tin in which the lamb was cooked, skim off any fat and place
on the hob. Heat and add a tablespoon of wine or water, scraping up the tasty
bits in the pan. Pour in the water from
the carrots and bring to the boil. Add 1
tsp cornflour mixed to a paste with a little cold water. Stir well until you have a smooth gravy.
Season with salt and pepper.
LEMON TART
Pastry
5 oz plain flour
1 oz icing sugar
1 egg yolk
4 oz butter
Filling
2 lemons, zest and juice
3 eggs
6 oz caster sugar
5 fl oz double cream
1. To make the pastry, put the flour and icing sugar in a bowl and dice the cold butter into it. Rub in the butter, or put it in a food processor, until it resembles finde breadcrumbs.Add the egg yolk and mix in well until you have a dough. Leave it to rest in the fridge for at least 20 minutes then roll out to fit a loose- bottomed tart tin. Put a circle of greaseproof paper and some baking beans on top and bake blind for 15 minutes at 180/gas 4, then remove from the oven and remove the paper and baking beans. Put the pastry back in the oven for a further 5 minutes. Take it out of the oven and leave it to cool.
2. Mix together the eggs and sugar then add the lemon juice, rind and cream. Put the pastry case in its tin on a baking sheet, carefully pour in the lemon filling and put it in the oven at gas 2/160 for 20 minutes until the filling has just set.
3. Serve warm, dusted with icing sugar.