Name: Roast red wine lamb with Italian beans
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2kg leg of lamb; 4 garlic cloves sliced; 8 good sprigs thyme; 5 tbsp olive oil; half a bottle red wine; zest 1 lemon; 1l hot lamb stock; 3 red onions each cut into 6 wedges; 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar; 2 rosemary needless roughly chopped; 100g SunBlush tomato drained and roughly chopped; 3 x 400g cannellini beans; handful flatleaf parsley roughly chopped

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Roast red wine lamb with Italian beans

Roast red wine lamb with Italian beans

Lesley Waters

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Serves 8

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Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 30 mins

Plus reducing time for the gravy

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Ingredients

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2kg leg of lamb
4 garlic cloves

sliced
8 good sprigs thyme
5 tbsp olive oil
half a bottle red wine
zest 1 lemon
1l hot lamb stock
3 red onions

each cut into 6 wedges
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar

For the beans

2 rosemary

needless roughly chopped
100g SunBlush tomato

drained and roughly chopped
3 x 400g cannellini beans
handful flatleaf parsley

roughly chopped

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal534
fat27g
saturates10g
carbs24g
sugars7g
fibre7g
protein47g
salt2.02g

Method

step 1

Using a sharp knife, cut small slashes all over the lamb, then push a slice of garlic into each. Put half the thyme, 3 tbsp olive oil, wine, lemon zest and a good grinding of black pepper into a large freezer bag. Addthe lamb, tie the bag tightly and refrigerate for at least 4 hrs, preferably overnight.
step 2

Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Put the rest of the thyme into the bottom of a roasting tin then lift the lamb out of the marinade and sit on top of the thyme. Roast for 20 mins, then toss onions into the pan, drizzle with a little oil, then turn the oven down to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Roast for 15 mins/450g for medium. Meanwhile, strain the marinade into a pan, add most of the stock and boil until reduced by two thirds (this will take about 20 mins). Set aside. Gravy can be made ahead or the day before if necessary, as long as the meat has marinated for 4 hrs.
step 3

Once the lamb is ready, take out and rest on a board, wrapped in a tent of foil to keep warm. Set the onions aside in a bowl. Put the roasting tin onto a low heat and add the balsamic vinegar to the tin with a splash more stock and scrape all the meaty bits from the bottom. Tip into the jug with the gravy.
step 4

For the beans, add 2 tbsp oil to the roasting tin. Add the rosemary and tomatoes, and fry for 1 min until the rosemary smells aromatic. Tip in the beans, the red onions and the final splash of stock, then warm through. Season, then stir in the parsley just before serving. Serve on a platter, topped with the lamb.

RECIPE TIPS

TINNED BEANS

Canned beans are ideal for this roast. I’ve chosen cannellini but you could use borlotti, flageolet or even a mixture of beans.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2006

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