Mutton Recipes

please for fillet leg.

No body use mutton then?

yum yum...
Roast Mutton and HerbsPreheat oven to 225c
Long and slow cooking is best
Rub the leg of mutton with olive oil, salt and pepper. Chop up some fresh rosemary and sprinkle all over the mutton.
Make a slit near the knuckle and place garlic into the slit couple of others in the meat and put in garlic slivers.
Sear in a hot (225c°) oven until brown, turning as required. Place roast on bed of rosemary sprigs. Bake the mutton at 160c for 2 - 3 hours ...
The roasting time will depend on the size of leg, so keep a watch out. When it's tender, put on hot serving platter to rest covered with foil... .
Make gravy from the panAdd little water to pan and scrape up all the juices and baked pieces, bring to a boil stirring all the while.
Now add some flour and water that has been mixed to a smooth paste and let it boil for a minute or two...
You can use cornflour and water and add a little bistro. . or a beef oxo cube if you want. . taste it . . add salt and pepper as required
Mint sauce to compliment the meat... .

My favourite... .
Roast Hogget / MuttonPreheat oven to 160c
1 leg /shoulder / shank of hogget / mutton. . olive oil. . salt. . pepper. . 8 large onions. . red wine. . flour. .
Peel onion and french cut, making crescents, then layer to make bed for leg... little olive oil, Sprinkle with 2 tsp of salt...
Place leg on top of onions. . Pour 400ml of red wine on top, a grind of black pepper and then tightly cover with tinfoil. In oven at 160c for 5 hours... .
After 4. 5 hours, lift foil at one end, and just before serving , remove foil and turn oven up to 200c for 5 mins... On bench covered with foil to rest...
Gravy:
Carefully tip off excess fat, but leave some in the pan to brown the flour in. Put on stove element and add 4 tbsp flour.
Cook, stirring, taking care that nothing starts to burn in the pan until the flour is cooked, then add water and a 100ml of red wine.
Simmer, check seasoning, tip into gravy boat and serve. Best touse a stick blender for the onions... . .

Tasty Roast MuttonPreheat oven to 180c
Long and slow cooking is best
1 leg /shoulder / shank of mutton. . salt. . pepper and dry mustard to season joint. .
Sauce:
1 tbsp flour. . pepper. . salt. . 4 tbsp butter. . 2 tbsp lemon juice. . 1 clove garlic. . 1 tsp mustard (dry). . 6 tbsp peach or apricot jam.
Score surface lightly, rub seasoning into joint, place in oven dish. Warm butter, add other sauce ingredients and mix well together.
Coat upper side of joint and place in over 180c to roast for 3 - 4 hours, or until cooked...
During cooking, turn roast over and coat upper side with remaining sauce... Continue to baste. . Make gravy leaving sauce remains in pan... .

Try Marinating it with Ginger Ale and Soya sauce soak in a pot overnight then roast slowly. Yummyyyyyyyyyyyy

Thanks sounds good.

Just has some lovely lovely mutton thanks for the heads up.