Roast Lamb with Rice
⏱️ Prep: 25 min🍳 Cook: 120 min
Ingredients
| 1 бутче | lamb meat, leg |
| 50 - 60 мл | rakia (brandy) |
| 2 ч.ч. | rice |
| 1 глава | onion |
| 3 - 4 скилидки | garlic |
| 150 г | bacon (lard) |
| — | salt |
| — | black pepper, freshly ground |
| — | rosemary, to taste |
| — | white oregano, to taste |
Instructions
- Rub the lamb meat well with spices and drizzle it with a little rakia. Put it in a baking dish, cover it and let it rest for 1 hour.
- Then pour 1-2 tea cups of warm water into the dish, cover with baking foil and put the lamb to roast for about 2 hours at 170 degrees.
- Meanwhile, cut the bacon into pieces and fry it in a heated vessel. Once it renders a little, fry the chopped onion and garlic in the fat.
- Then add the previously washed rice, fry it well and pour in 1 tea cup of water. Once the rice absorbs the liquid, pour in another cup and so on, until the rice is cooked. Finally season with spices.
- Remove the foil from the lamb and distribute the rice around the leg in the dish. Return to the oven to brown to a pleasant color.