Lamb leg baked in the oven in the sleeve

I really like lamb and dishes from it. You can cook lamb in different ways, but in this recipe I suggest roasting a leg of lamb. It's not difficult, believe me! Read on for more details on baking.

To roast a leg of lamb, we need:

• Lamb leg (whole) or its wide part - 1-1.5 kg
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 2-3 cloves
• Spicy herbs - I use thyme and oregano, a few sprigs of rosemary
• Salt, pepper - to taste
• Ready mustard - 1 tbsp. spoon (you can use mustard seeds in the form of peas)
• Olive oil
• Sleeve for baking

I marinate lamb in advance, the day before, so that the meat turns out delicious and tender. And I bake in the sleeve already on the day of serving.

How to cook a leg of lamb in a roasting sleeve

1. Wash the leg of lamb thoroughly, cut off unnecessary fat if you want to make it leaner (it can be used in cooking). We clean the carrots and cut them into cubes, 1.5-2 cm long. We clean the garlic, we also cut them into small cubes. Next, using a knife, we make cuts in the meat with a depth of the size of pieces of garlic and carrots. In these cuts we will place the carrots and garlic. Make 15-20 cuts to stuff the leg of lamb. This is quite enough. And the remaining pieces of garlic and carrots, just cut them into cubes, we just add them to the meat.
2. Next, prepare a simple marinade: mix oregano, thyme, 1 teaspoon of salt, pepper, mustard, add 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Mix everything thoroughly until a homogeneous mass. We rub our lamb leg with the resulting marinade, place it in a cup with a lid or wrap it in aluminum foil and send it to marinate for a day (or at least 8-12 hours).
3. Before baking, place the leg of lamb in a baking sleeve, spread 3-4 sprigs of rosemary around. We carefully tie the edges of the sleeve or use special clips. Do not forget to make several cuts 1-1.5 cm long in the upper part of the sleeve so that the air comes out.
4. And we got to the main secret - how to properly bake a leg of lamb in the oven? This method was told to my friends by a meat seller in the market. The method turned out to be so wonderful that now we all use it to roast lamb. So, you need to preheat the oven to the maximum, usually 250-270 degrees, depending on the model of your oven. We put our lamb in the sleeve (on a baking sheet) in the oven and bake for 1.5 hours, lowering the temperature by 10 degrees every 10 minutes. Thus, after 90 minutes, the temperature will reach 180 degrees, and the leg of lamb will be juicy, tender and perfectly baked. 15-20 minutes before the end of cooking, it is necessary to cut the sleeve at the top so that the lamb is browned. And now our leg of lamb, baked in a sleeve in the oven, is ready!

You can serve a baked leg of lamb as a main course, for example, after a light meal.