Roast Lamb With Potato, Onion And Pepper Gratin

Recipe Ingredients

6		Garlic cloves
2 lbs	908g / 32oz	Baking potatoes - peeled
		Thinly sliced
1 tablespoon	15ml	Minced thyme
		Salt
		Freshly ground pepper
2		Onions - very thinly sliced (large)
1/2 lb	227g / 8oz	Roasted sweet red peppers
1 cup	237ml	Dry white wine
1/3 cup	78ml	Olive oil
1		Leg of lamb - bone in (6-7lb)

Recipe Instructions

This one-dish oven meal is easy to prepare and needs only a bottle of wine and a loaf of bread to make it complete.

Split 1 clove garlic. Rub bottom of 16x10x2" ocal gratin dish with split clove of garlic. Arrange potatoes over bottom of pan. Chop together remaining 5 garlic cloves, and thyme. Season generously to taste with salt, pepper and 1/3 of garlic-thyme combination. Layer sliced onions on top. Season to taste with salt, pepper and another 1/3 of garlic and thyme. Layer peppers on top of onions. Season to taste with salt, pepper and remaining 1/3 garlic and thyme. Pour over wine, then oil.

Trim excess fat from lamb. Season meat to taste with salt and pepper. Place sturdy oven rack directly on top of gratin dish. Set lamb on rack so that juices will drip into gratin.

Roast, uncovered, at 400F. about 1 hour and 15 minutes for rare. Turn lamb every 15 minutes, basting with liquid from dish underneath. Remove from oven and let lamb stand on rack so that juices will drip into gratin.

to serve, carve lamb into thin slices and arrange on warmed dinner plates or on serving platter with vegetable gratin alongside.

Source:
Weight Watchers Cut the Fat Cookbook

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