Best 4 Indonesian Roast Lamb Recipes

LAMB SATAY

Steps:

• Put the meat in a mixing bowl and sprinkle over the meat tenderizer. Rub and mix until all meat pieces are covered with a meat tenderizer. Set aside.
• In a food processor, put the onion, garlic, ground coriander, cumin, salt, and water. Give it a blitz until you get a smooth mixture. Or, you can use a pestle and mortar to pound to make the spice paste.
• Heat the oil on a small frying pan, and fry the spice mixture and kaffir lime leaves until it's cooked and smell fragrant. Set aside to cool slightly.
• When the spice is cool, add it to the meat and mix it until all the meat pieces are covered with the spice mixture. Set aside to marinate for at least one hour.
• In the meantime, you can make the sauce. Put the peanuts, onion, garlic, chilli, salt and water in a blender. Blitz until you get a grainy smooth peanut mixture.
• Then cook the peanut mixture in a cooking pan until it's boiling and simmering. The sauce will look shiny with a little oil on the side.
• To make the pickle, put the cucumber cubes, chopped carrot, onion, and chillies in a mixing bowl. Drizzle over the lime juice and sprinkle the salt and sugar. Taste it and add the sugar or salt accordingly. The pickle should taste refreshingly tangy, spicy, salty and a little bit sweet. Yummy.
• When your meat is ready to grill, heat your griddle pan and drizzle a teaspoon of oil. Put the skewers of lamb on the pan and cook at moderate-high heat. Take care and keep turning the skewers every so often.
• Once the satay is cooked, arrange on a plate and top it with the sauce and sweet soy sauce. Enjoy your lamb satay with the pickle on the side.

HERB-ROASTED LAMB

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Place the oven rack in the lower third of the oven so the lamb will sit in the middle of the oven.
• Peel 6 of the cloves of garlic and place them in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade. Add the rosemary, 1 tablespoon salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, and butter. Process until the garlic and rosemary are finely minced. Thoroughly coat the top and sides of the lamb with the rosemary mixture. Allow to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
• Toss the potatoes and remaining unpeeled garlic in a bowl with the olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Place in the bottom of a large roasting pan. Place the lamb on top of the potatoes. Roast for 20 minutes. Turn the heat down to 350 degrees F and roast for another 1 to 1 1/4 hours, until a meat thermometer registers 130 to 135 degrees F for medium-rare. Place the lamb on a cutting board, cover with aluminum foil, and allow to rest for 15 minutes. Slice and serve with the potatoes.

ROAST LAMB

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425 degrees. Use a small sharp knife to make about a dozen incisions, each about 2 inches deep, through the fat that covers the top of the meat. Using a mortar and pestle or a blender, blend 2/3 of the anchovies (or 2/3 of the mustard if using), the rosemary leaves and the garlic cloves into a chunky paste. Using your fingers, press paste deeply into incisions.
• Mix remaining anchovies (or mustard) and the butter into a paste. Smear this mixture all over the surface of the roast. Season liberally with black pepper. (Do not add salt; the anchovies are salty enough, and so is the mustard.) Place the lamb on a rack in a roasting pan, fat side up, and squeeze the lemon halves over. Pour the wine around the roast into the pan.
• Roast 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees and roast until internal temperature reaches 130 to 135 degrees (for medium-rare or medium meat), about another 60 to 90 minutes. Baste every 20 minutes or so with the wine and drippings in the pan, adding more wine as needed to keep the liquid from scorching. If possible, for the last 15 minutes of cooking, use convection or a broiler to crisp the fat on the roast.
• Remove pan from the oven, remove rack from the pan, and let the roast rest on the rack for at least 15 to 20 minutes in a warm place, tented with foil. The internal temperature will rise to about 140 to 145 degrees.
• To make sauce from the pan drippings, remove a few tablespoons of fat by tipping the pan and spooning off the top layer. Put the pan over medium heat until the liquid simmers. Taste the simmering liquid and whisk in more wine, 1/4 cup at a time, until the consistency and flavor are right. Do not let the mixture become syrupy; it should be a sharp jus, not a thick gravy.
• Carve lamb into 1/2-inch-thick slices and arrange on a heated platter, decorated with rosemary sprigs. Serve with piping hot gravy.

ROAST LAMB

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450-degrees F.
• In a large roasting pan combine the red onion, 2 teaspoons oil and garlic in the center of the pan. Place parsley sprigs, rosemary sprigs, and thyme sprigs on top of the onion mixture.
• Place lamb on top of herbs and drizzle with remaining oil (1 tablespoon). I also placed 6 peeled potatoes around lamb (not in original directions).
• Sprinkle lamb with salt, pepper and chopped herbs.
• Roast for 15 minutes.
• Reduce oven to 350-degrees F. and roast until meat is done (for medium rare meat thermometer inserted into lamb reads 145-degrees F.) about 75 - 90 minutes.
• Transfer lamb to a cutting board and cover loosely with foil for about 15 minutes before slicing. The easy way for me to slice lamb is to hold the leg bone vertically and slice the meat vertically.