Crushed-Herb Lamb

Name: Crushed-Herb Lamb
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 9
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps dried rosemary; 2 Tbsps dried thyme; 6 cloves garlic; 2 Tbsps fresh-ground pepper; 2 teaspoons About rock salt or kosher salt; 2 kilograms leg of lamb; 59 milliliters olive oil; 57 grams shallots (about each)

Crushed-Herb Lamb might be just the main course you are searching for. This gluten free, dairy free, and primal recipe serves 9. One portion of this dish contains approximately 36g of protein, 14g of fat, and a total of 291 calories. A mixture of leg of lamb, shallots, garlic, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Trim and discard fat and any transparent membrane from surface of lamb.

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Lamb

Peel garlic and shallots and cut into 1/4-inch-thick slivers. Pierce lamb all over with the tip of a small knife and insert garlic and shallots into cuts (lamb will look like a porcupine). Also tuck 2 teaspoons rock salt into cuts, spacing evenly over meat.

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Rock Salt

Shallot

Garlic

Lamb

Meat

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Knife

Mix thyme, rosemary, pepper, and olive oil. Pat mixture all over the lamb.

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Olive Oil

Rosemary

Pepper

Thyme

Lamb

If cooking over charcoal briquets, ignite 60 briquets on firegrate of a barbecue with a lid. When coals are dotted with gray, about 25 minutes, push an equal number of coals to opposite sides of grate.

Add 5 briquets to each mound of coals. Put a foil drip pan between coals. Set grill in place.

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Grill

Aluminum Foil

Frying Pan

If using a gas barbecue, turn heat to high and close lid for at least 10 minutes. Adjust burners for indirect grilling (heat on parallel sides of grill but not in center). Set a drip pan between burners and put grill in place.

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Grill

Frying Pan

Put lamb on grill over drip pan, but not directly over heat. Cover barbecue; open all vents. (If cooking over charcoal, after 30 minutes add 5 more briquets to each mound of coals.) Cook until a meat thermometer inserted through thickest part of meat to bone registers 125 for rare (1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes), or 135 for medium-rare (about 1 hour and 10 to 30 minutes).

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Bone