Easter Leg of Lamb

Ingredients

Serves : 10 

• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram
• 1/4 teaspoon mustard powder

• 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1 (2.25kg) whole leg of lamb
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 orange peel, cut into thin strips
• fresh mint, garnish

 DIRECTIONS

• Prep:20min  ›  Cook:3hr  ›  Ready in:3hr20min 

• Preheat oven to 170 C / Gas mark 2.
• In a small bowl, mix together salt, pepper, seasoned salt, marjoram, mustard and cardamom. Rub spice mixture over lamb. Cut 16 deep slits into lamb. Insert thyme and a strip of orange peel into each slit. Place lamb fat side up on a rack in a shallow roasting tin. Insert meat thermometer in centre of thickest portion of meat.
• Roast lamb in preheated oven for 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Meat is medium done when a meat thermometer registers 80 degrees C.
• Remove meat thermometer. Place roast on a warm serving platter. Garnish platter with fresh mint. 
  

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