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Seven-hour lamb

Seven-hour lamb is a good old country recipe and very simple. There's really not much to do, just long, slow cooking and the result is always amazing: the lamb is so tender it can be cut with a fork.

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Last modified on: April 20^th 2014

Keywords for this recipe:Lamb 7 hours Slow cooking Oven Cut with fork Tender

For 1 leg of lamb, you will need:

1 1 onion
2 1 carrot
3 3 cloves garlic
4 1 leg of lamb
5 1 glass dry white wine
6 salt
7 pepper

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
23 min.	7 hours 10 min.	7 hours 33 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Prepare 1 onion.

Prepare 1 carrot and

peel 3 cloves garlic.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Salt and pepper the lamb all over.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Place the lamb in an oven cooking bag (roasting bag) with the carrots, onion and cloves of garlic. Pour in 1 glass dry white wine.

If you do not have a roasting bag, use a casserole dish with a lid.

Stage 4 - 7 hours

Cook in the oven at 120°C (250°F) for 7 hours.

Stage 5 - 10 min.

Towards the end of this cooking time, turn the oven up to 200°C (390°F) for the last 10 minutes.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Turn the lamb out gently onto the serving plate. Discard the bone and cloves of garlic.

Serve the dish in the centre of the table so that your guests can serve themselves with a fork.

Remarks

When buying your leg of lamb, there is no need to ask the butcher to de-bone it. In fact, if you cook it on the bone, this will improve the flavour.

Do choose locally produced lamb if at all possible, which has not already come halfway round the world before ending up in your kirchen. Trust your butcher!

The 7-hour cooking time is not absolutely fixed, so if you raise the temperature, you can reduce the cooking time: 5 hours at 150°C (300°F), for example.

You can accompany the lamb with just about anything you choose: vegetables, potatoes, pasta, rice, etc. Simply serve the cooking juices in a jug or drain them off from the bag 10 minutes before the end of cooking and reduce them over low heat.

And to drink?

A robust red wine, such as a Shiraz.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
8,233 Kcal or 34,470 Kj	605 gr	36 gr	630 gr
412 %	233 %	3 %	95 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
240 Kcal or 1,005 Kj	18 gr	1 gr	18 gr
12 %	7 %	<1 %	3 %

Per leg of lamb
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
8,233 Kcal or 34,470 Kj	605 gr	36 gr	630 gr
412 %	233 %	3 %	95 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 leg of lamb : 46.30 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Garlic clove: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Courgettes (zuchinis) , Veal Chop With Assortment of Vegetables, Duo of slow-cooked pork, How to slow cook meat, Red rice pannequets, ... All
	Onion: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Paté en croute (terrine in a pie crust), Comtoise stuffed tomatoes, Baker's tuna and mushroom tart, Salmon marinated like herring, Roscoff salad, ... All
	Dry white wine: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fish "à la Bordelaise", Creamy risotto with vegetables , Scallops with crunchy vegetables and wine sabayon, Express sauerkraut, Veal Marengo, ... All
	Carrot: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Creamy risotto with diced vegetables and flax seeds, Sautéed Pork with Peanuts, Crispy prawn rolls, Baked Mont d'Or with diced mixed vegetables, Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, ... All

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