Wife's 1st Cook - Pomegranate Glazed Leg of Lamb

FearlessGrill

My wife is a great cook, and runs the cooking blog that I often link to with my Egg endeavors, www.fearlesskitchen.com. However, she had never used the Egg until recently. For her 1st attempt, she made a slow cooked leg of lamb with a pomegranate glaze. The original recipe came from Paula Wolfert's The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen, which is not a book about retarded Greek cooks, but rather a collection of slow cooked recipes from the region. The recipe wasn't designed for a smoker, but she adapted it to the Egg, and made some other changes in the process. Information on the recipe and the cook can be found on her blog at http://www.fearlesskitchen.com/2008/09/recipe-slow-roa.html

The lamb came out quite tasty, especially since it was her 1st time using the Egg.



To make this dish, she marinated the lamb in pomegranate molasses, olive oil, garlic, tomato paste, and aleppo pepper, and let it sit in the marinade for about 3 hours. She then smoked it indirect over hickory at 250 degree dome temperature for about 2 1/4 hours. She then upped the temperature of the Egg to 450, and cooked for about 20 minutes, until the internal temperature of the meat hit 130 degrees.

While the meat was cooking, she reserved the marinade, added a cup of pomegranate juice, and reduced it by half to make a sauce. The meat rested for about 15 minutes, and was sliced and served with the sauce on the side.

Enjoy!

-John

JLOCKHART29

Tell your wife she's welcome to Egg in "The Shack" anytime. Most folks do a yard bird or some'en for there 1st cook. I think this quilifies for a little bit more!! Looks great and bet it taste even better!!

Little Steven

FearlessGrill,

That looks eggcellent! Cudos to your wife.
I'm going to do that this weekend.

Steve

lowercasebill

wow, step aside, grab a beverage and let her cook on the egg.

Big'un

beautiful! I want to lick the monitor!!

crghc98

Was going to save the 100th post for a cook. Had to chime in here. Looks great. Going to try one myself. Might have to try this recipe. Never thought of pomegranate with the lamb...

FearlessGrill

The pomegranate matches really well with lamb. We also have a recipe for pomegranate lamb chops up in the BGE section of the web site. I think that one is also fantastic - we've made it a bunch of times.

-John