Lamb baked in the oven: a recipe for the right preparation

Meat lamb, properly cooked, is a very useful and tasty dish. Despite the fact that not everyone consumes mutton for food, preferring pork, this meat has a good taste and low cholesterol.

Dishes from mutton will undoubtedly become a decoration of the table. Today we will tell you how to cook lamb in the oven.

How to cook mutton

There are different ways of cooking lamb: it can be boiled, you can fry or bake in the oven. You can just rub a piece of lamb with salt, pepper and other spices to taste, put in the oven, add potatoes and bake.

Due to the fact that the mutton itself is rather dry, it is better to put it in a sleeve for baking or wrap it in foil.

Simple recipe

Lamb baked in the oven, recipe: a piece of lamb, the size of which depends on the appetite, rinse, remove the hymen and dry it. On all sides pepper and salt. Nashpigovat meat with garlic. You can season with coriander and other oriental spices, which are offered in the market for mutton.

Take a piece of foil, lay on it a bay leaf, sweet pepper, peas and cloves. On this pillow of seasonings lay a piece of lamb and pour lemon juice. Meat wrap with foil and leave for a few hours in this marinade, in order for the meat to absorb all the flavors and juices.

In the meat baking dish, pour the water and place the parcel.

The oven must be preheated to a temperature of 200 degrees. We put in it our meat in the form and cook for about two hours. All this time we watch the presence of water in the form.

If the water boils, it needs to be topped up, it is necessary that the lamb should remain juicy.

After two hours, remove the foil, pour out the liquid, and send the meat back to the oven. In half an hour it will get a crispy crust.

Chanahi - lamb in the pot

You will need the following ingredients:

500 gr mutton or beef

1 onion( finely chopped)

500 gr potatoes

3 eggplant

2 garlic cloves

3 tbsp.tomato paste

2 tomatoes

1 Bulgarian pepper

½ cup greens( parsley, dill, basil, coriander)

Method of preparation

In the pots, lay the layers( from below upwards): the meat( cubes), onions, potatoes( diced), eggplantcubes), garlic( crushed), tomato paste, tomatoes( circles), Bulgarian pepper( finely chopped), greens.

All in a raw state, each layer salt - pepper. A little water( a couple of spoons) to the bottom. Close the lids. Put in a cold oven. At a temperature of 180 ° C, hold for 2 hours.

Lamb with dried apricots

You will need: 3 kg of mutton leg, 600 ml of broth on lamb, 75 g of dried apricots or apricots, 3 cloves of garlic and rosemary sprigs, 3 tbsp.l.olive oil, 1 tbsp.l.flour.

Smear mutton with olive oil, make a deep cut on the whole surface of the meat with a knife and open them with your fingers.

Mix the chopped garlic, dried apricots and rosemary, stuff them with meat, put them in the holes. Rub your foot with pepper and salt.

Oven to heat up to 200 degrees, at the same time preheat and the form for baking. Put the lamb in a mold, bake for 2 hours until cooked - the juice that is released when piercing the meat should be slightly pinkish, before meat is cut for 10 minutes.

Prepare the gravy: drain the fat from the mold, leaving 1 tablespoon, combine it with flour, add broth, bring to a boil, put out for 5 minutes, add sliced ​​rosemary, water the meat when serving.

Video recipes for help to housewives

Very detailed video about lamb cooking:

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Lamb with vegetables in Armenian: