Holiday Leg of Lamb Roast

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp salt

• ½ tsp black pepper

• 1 tsp seasoned salt

• ½ tsp dried marjoram

• ¼ tsp dry mustard

• ⅛ tsp ground cardamom

• 4 lbs whole leg of lamb

• ½ tsp dried thyme

• 1 orange peel, cut into slivers

• 2 Tbsps chopped fresh mint, or to taste

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

In a small bowl, mix together salt, pepper, seasoned salt, marjoram, mustard and cardamom. Rub spice mixture over lamb. Cut 16 deep slits into roast. Insert thyme and a sliver of orange peel into each slit. Place lamb fat side up on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Insert meat thermometer in center of thickest portion of meat.

Roast lamb in preheated oven for 2-2.5 hours. Meat is medium done when a meat thermometer registers 160 degrees.

Remove meat thermometer. Place roast on a warm serving platter. Put a paper frill around end of leg bone and garnish platter with fresh mint.

Recipe adapted from All Recipes