Moroccan Roast Leg of Lamb

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What You Need

  • 1 to 1/2 kg Leg of lamb with bone-in
  • ¾ cup lemon juice or fresh
  • 1/3 cup Olive oil.
  • 2 table spoons Cape Culinary Moroccan Style Rub
  • 100g Sun dried apricots / peaches
  • 100g fresh or dried pine nuts.

The How 

  • Wash lamb well and pat dry and score (not to deep).
  • Place 2 table spoons of Cape Culinary Moroccan Style Rub in a glass or plastic bowl.
  • Add the olive oil and the lemon Juice; mix the ingredients all together and let stand for a 10 to 15 minutes. This allows the Rub, lemon juice and the Olive oil to fuse.
  • (For extra taste add 1 teaspoon of finely ground ginger, this is not necessary).
  • Coat the meat with the rub using either with your hands or a basting brush. Make sure that you penetrate all areas ensuring that meet is well coated.
  • For a fuller taste let meat stand for a ½ hour to allow the rub flavors to penetrated.
  • Coat the meat again
  • Place meats in the roasting pan add the sun dried apricots and the pine nuts and 100ml water, placing the meat on top.  
  • Roast, uncovered, at 160 degrees C  for approximately 1 hour, turn lamb over and continue to roast for a further 45 minutes (total roasting time 1 hours and 45 minutes depending on size of roast) for meat to be well done add 15 minutes per side.

Serve with

  • Couscous, prepare couscous with Cape Culinary Couscous Spice.
  • Garnish with fresh Danya / Coriander leaves and plain yoghurt and the apricots and pine nuts.
  • Side orders of green & red diced peppers.

For extra taste try our Cape Culinary Tangy Pear Chutney or our Cape Culinary chilli Sauce or the Green chilli and Danya Sauce.