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Simple Roast Lamb and Gravy

A roast dinner classic! This Simple Roast Lamb and Gravy is quick to prepare and quick to cook, but using plenty of rosemary and garlic ensures it’s packed full of flavour! Perfect for your Sunday lunch or Easter celebrations this year.

Simple Roast Lamb

I love slow roast lamb as much as the next person, but sometimes I just don’t have 4 or 5 hours to spare! This Simple Roast Lamb is a quick and easy recipe for a half leg of lamb (1.5kg / 3.25lb) that takes just over 1 hour 30 minutes from start to finish – and for 1 hour and 10 minutes of that the lamb is in the oven, doing it’s thing, while I do mine…

Simple Roast lamb

The bonus of doing fast cooked roast lamb is that the lamb is cooked at a high temperature…ensuring the oven is at the perfect temperature to cook those all important roast potatoes!  While the lamb is cooking and resting you can prepare and cook my Easy Peasy Roast Potatoes and Easy Peasy Roast Vegetables.

Add in a green vegetable or two and a jug of gravy and you have yourself a VERY easy and stress free roast dinner. Perfect for Sunday lunch or even your Easter Day celebrations.

Simple Roast Lamb and Gravy

This recipe will leave the lamb just a tiny bit pink in the middle. If you prefer your lamb well done, add an extra 5 or 10 minutes to the cooking time.

This recipe makes enough for 4, with enough leftovers to make my Leftover Roast Lamb Shepherd’s Pie. Or if you don’t mind having no leftovers (!) it will serve 6-8, depending on appetite.

Simple Roast lamb

My favourite wine match with traditional roast leg of lamb done like this with rosemary and garlic, would be a robust red such as a Rioja or a Rhone. Other options that would work well include a Chianti, Bordeaux or Chilean Merlot. This is one occasion when white wine just doesn’t really work (IMHO!).

Simple Roast Lamb

Don’t be fazed by the garlic and rosemary part – it really is very easy. Simply use a small sharp knife to cut lots of holes in the lamb and then simply stuff with a small sprig of rosemary and a small slice of garlic. It looks fancy but it’s very easy and takes 5 minutes, tops!

Simple Roast lamb

 

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Simple Roast Lamb
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Simple Roast Lamb

A roast dinner classic! This Simple Roast Lamb and Gravy is quick to prepare and quick to cook, but using plenty of rosemary and garlic ensures it's packed full of flavour! Perfect for your Sunday lunch or Easter celebrations this year. (Serves 6-8, depending on appetite, or serves 4 with enough for leftovers for the next day.)
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Course Main Course
Cuisine British
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 8 people
Calories 165kcal
Author Eb Gargano

Ingredients

Metric - US Customary

Lamb:

  • 1.5 kg lamb
  • Olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
  • 4 large sprigs of rosemary chopped into small sprigs
  • 3 garlic cloves sliced thinly

Gravy:

  • 1 lamb stock cube
  • 2 tablespoons plain flour
  • 400 ml boiling water
  • Lamb juices

Instructions

Lamb:

  • Pre-heat the oven to 220C / 200C / gas mark 7 / 425F.
  • Get your lamb out of its packaging and stand on a board. Cut lots of little holes all over the lamb. Drizzle the lamb with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Rub the oil, salt and pepper all over the lamb and then push a small sprig of rosemary and a slither of garlic into each hole.
  • Put the lamb in the oven for 1 hour 10 minutes.
  • When the lamb is ready, remove it from the oven and put it on a plate or a board (I usually use a clean roasting tin, or sometimes even a pizza tray!)
  • Rest for 15 minutes and then carve and serve.

Gravy:

  • While the lamb is resting you can make a simple gravy.
  • Start by crumbling the stock cube into a jug and adding the plain flour. Mix to a smooth paste using a small amount of cold water and then add 400ml boiling water to the jug, stirring constantly.
  • Remove the fat from the tin you roasted the lamb in and put the tin on the hob over a low heat. Pour in the jug of lamb gravy and stir to incorporate the bits on the bottom of the tin.
  • Add the juices from the resting lamb and then cook the gravy on a low heat for about 5 minutes. Pour back into the jug and serve with the lamb.

Notes

Nutrition information is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

Nutrition Facts
Simple Roast Lamb
Amount Per Serving
Calories 165 Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Fat 6g9%
Saturated Fat 2g13%
Cholesterol 75mg25%
Sodium 82mg4%
Potassium 343mg10%
Carbohydrates 1g0%
Protein 23g46%
Vitamin A 15IU0%
Vitamin C 0.5mg1%
Calcium 18mg2%
Iron 2.2mg12%
* % Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet
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  1. Maureen says

    12th July 2015 at 6:17 pm

    Another hit!!!! Husband suggested the gravy could do with some wine – but I think that is just his rules – if in doubt add a dash of red! 6 year old loved gravy and lamb giving both a thumbs up. This is my new menu planning site!!! Thank you

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      12th July 2015 at 9:54 pm

      So pleased you liked it! Wine in the gravy sounds like a great idea. I do that too sometimes.

      Reply
  2. Corina Blum says

    22nd February 2018 at 1:13 pm

    This sounds so tasty and the best thing would definitely be the leftovers the next day. I love to put lamb leftovers in a curry but I’m sure your shepherds pie is delicious too! Thanks so much for sharing with #CookOnceEatTwice x

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      23rd February 2018 at 10:18 am

      Thanks! Leftover lamb in curry is good too. But leftover lamb shepherd’s pie is my favourite 😀 Eb x

      Reply
  3. Albert says

    22nd February 2018 at 4:10 pm

    Love the technique of cooking the lamb at a high temperature, this looks amazing, plus anything with garlic and rosemary will be oh so good! great recipe 🙂

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      23rd February 2018 at 10:20 am

      It works so well. Not only is it quicker, but it also means you can cook your roast potatoes at the same time (and at the right temperature for roasties). And yep – totally agree about the garlic and rosemary Eb 🙂

      Reply
  4. jenny says

    23rd February 2018 at 1:23 pm

    This looks fantastic Eb!My mother in law makes great Roast Lamb but I find it hard to cook myself as we used to farm them and they were so cute!!!So I eat it if someone else cooks it and this really does make me want to change my mind!

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      25th February 2018 at 7:22 pm

      Thanks so much Jenny! 😀 Eb x

      Reply
  5. Michelle Frank | Flipped-Out Food says

    23rd February 2018 at 4:34 pm

    I have always done the low-and-slow method for roast lamb, so I’m totally jazzed to see a recipe that is done in a fraction of the time at a high temperature! Nothing says “special” quite like roast leg of lamb, so I’m sure that this will be making an appearance on my Easter Dinner table!

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      25th February 2018 at 8:10 pm

      I must admit, I do love the low and slow method too…and it’s great to make on a lazy weekend when I have ooodles of time…but sometimes I just don’t have oodles of time and then this method is perfect – and plus it’s just the right temperature for the roast potatoes…and you know how much I like my roasties 😀 Eb x

      Reply
  6. Jacqui Bellefontaine says

    26th February 2018 at 6:56 pm

    Roast leg of lamb is probably my all time favourite roast and I think it is better with a shorter roast and nice and pink inside. I only slow roast shoulder. Couldn’t agree more that it has to be red wine. Rioja being my fav. Thank you for sharing on #CookBlogShare

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      27th February 2018 at 11:00 am

      Yes I agree – shorter and hotter tends to work better with leg…but shoulder is gorgeous slow roasted! Haha – glad you agree with me about the wine…I am actually quite often a real rebel when it comes to wine and will happily break all the ‘rules’ if I think the wine/food combo will work…there are some great non traditional pairings…but lamb and white wine is not one of them…or at least not a traditional leg of lamb like this! Lamb and a good bottle of Rioja on the other hand – yes please!! Eb x

      Reply
  7. Mel says

    2nd March 2018 at 10:48 pm

    Your lamb would be my husband’s idea of heaven! For some reason, I’ve never been able to digest lamb so I don’t eat it. How on earth do you manage to make a piece of meat look so good? You’ve got skills, lady!

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      5th March 2018 at 10:30 am

      Haha – thanks Mel! It’s amazing what you can achieve with a good camera and fancy editing software…this was actually a chicken! Haha – just kidding 😉 So sorry to hear you can’t eat lamb. 🙁 Eb x

      Reply
  8. Steffy says

    22nd April 2019 at 4:16 pm

    Looks amazing, I’m gonna cook it tonite. Bit scared to make gravy as it never turns out good. But will give it a try, thank you so much for sharing.

    Reply
    • Eb Gargano says

      22nd April 2019 at 5:35 pm

      Thanks Steffy – hope it worked out well for you! Eb 🙂

      Reply

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