Lamb in the oven with potatoes

LAMB IN THE OVEN WITH POTATOES

(Recipe for 6 people)

Ingredients:

1 leg of lamb (about 1.5 kg)

Salt, pepper, oregano, savory

200 g. olive oil

3 kg potatoes

2 large lemons

Instructions

Buy the leg of the lamb from the previous day, to marinate.

Wash it well.

Put on the leg salt, pepper, oregano and savory.

Rub the leg with your hand and spread the herbs evenly all over it.

Put 1TB oil in your palm and grease the leg around.

If you like the smell of garlic, nail into the meat a few cloves of garlic.

When you invite people for dinner, avoid the garlic because its smell is very strong.

Put the meat in a baking pan with dimensions 31CH41CH7 cm.

Wrap the pan around with cling film and put it in the fridge.

Let the meat overnight in the refrigerator.

The next morning pour water into the pan until it covers the 2/3 of the meat.

Put the pan in the oven on the first rack from the bottom.

Bake at 250 degrees Celsius.

Cover the whole pan with a loose sheet of non stick baking paper, to protect the meat from burning.

Leave the pan covered for an hour.

After that time, uncover the pan and turn the meat upside down.

Peel the potatoes and wash them.

Cut them into pieces that have the size of a walnut.

Put those pieces in a bowl and pour some oil over them.

Stir them well so that all pieces get greased around with oil.

Put the potatoes in the pan with the meat.

Pour in the pan the remaining oil. Add salt, pepper, oregano and savory.

Cover the pan again with the loose non stick baking paper.

Bake for one more hour.

Uncover the pan to check the meat.

Nail a fork ladle into the meat, to see if it is soft.

If the meat is soft, leave the pan uncovered and continue baking until it gets color on top.

Remove the meat from the pan and put it on a serving platter. Cover the meat with a lid to keep it warm.

Evenly spread the potatoes in the pan.

Pour into the potatoes the lemon juice and stir gently.

Bake the potatoes for half an hour.
Taste the potatoes and, if necessary, add salt.

Bake the potatoes until they are soft and tender and have absorbed almost all their fluids. 

Place the meat back in the pan and bake for 5 more minutes.

Turn of the oven. 
Keep the food in the oven covered with the baking paper.

When you are going to serve the food on the plates, take the pan off the oven..

The lamb is tastier when it is hot.