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How To: Crispy Skinned Lamb
GirlyEgg
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Hello Friends!
I'm making a leg of lamb for Easter dinner - bone in (preferred choice). I make it fairly often, but miss the crispy skin that I get in the oven or from the open pit methods at the Croatian picnics up north..... any suggestions? We are HUGE favorites of crispy skin!
I'm making a leg of lamb for Easter dinner - bone in (preferred choice). I make it fairly often, but miss the crispy skin that I get in the oven or from the open pit methods at the Croatian picnics up north..... any suggestions? We are HUGE favorites of crispy skin!
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Bobby Flay grilled one the other day using a yoghurt marinade. Looked to be as crispy as you might want your lamb to be. http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_26833,00.html
Rascal -
i looked through the 51 leg of lamb recepies i have and the only one that i though looked like something that might be what you want is this:
Lamb, Leg, Julia Child
Leg of lamb (4 to 6 pounds)
1 clove garlic, peeled and sliced
4 fresh mint leaves (or dried rosemary)
3 Tbs olive oil
2 Tbs vinegar
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp salt
Pepper
2 Tbs sugar
Flour
********SAUCE FOR LEFTOVERS*******
3 Tbs butter
3 1/2 Tbs flour
1/2 Tbs dry mustard
1/2 tsp curry powder
1/4 tsp paprika
1 1/2 cups beef stock
3 Tbs sherry
1 Pierce the lamb in several places and insert garlic slices and mint (or rosemary).
2 Mix together the oil, vinegar, Worcestershire, paprika, salt, pepper, and sugar. Add enough flour to thicken this muck into a paste. Rub it all over the meat to coat. Then roll the lamb in flour and place it in a pan (we used a rack).
3 I preheated the Kamado to 500 -550 degrees and roasted the lamb until the crust has hardened and browned lightly (about 45 minutes). I tossed in some pecan wood to add a little smoke. Then I reduced the temperature to 325 degrees until the internal temp was about 140 degrees.
*******SAUCE*********
1 Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour, mustard, curry and paprika and stir-cook a few minutes.
2 Add the broth and heat, stirring, until it is smooth and has thickened. Mix in the sherry. Serve over rewarmed slices of lamb.
Recipe Type
Main Dish, Meat
Recipe Source
Author: Julia Child
Source: Kamado, 10/16/01
now the reason it looked like what you wanted is it has a realativily high temp there at the beginning....
HTH
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You could try an end sear as well. I assume you're cooking indirect. Pull a few degrees shy of when you normally would, wrap and rest, and bring the temps way up. Lamb will easily take a spell at 5-700 (tandoori temps). Put the lamb back on until the skin's where you like it -- probably ten minutes or so. The outside cooks so fast it doesn't really affect the doneness of the rest of the meat.
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