Mareleigh’s Cola Marinated Leg of Lamb

Ingredients

1 Lamb Leg

2 1/2 Cups coarsely chopped carrots

2 medium potatoes unpeeled cut into wedges

3 celery sticks coarsely chopped

1 butternut pitted and sliced

500ml Coca Cola

500ml sweet red wine

20ml vinegar

50ml Worchester Sauce

50ml soy sauce

1 packet Spare Rib Marinade

125ml honey

3 tablespoons All Spice

4 bay leaves

A few whole cloves

Method

Note: You need two nights to prepare the leg of lamb

1. First, prepare marinade as per packet and add 250ml of the Coca Cola, let leg marinade in it until night before feast.

2. Layer vegetables in big oven pan creating a bed for your leg of lamb.

3. Place the marinated leg on top, pouring marinade over.

4. Mix the rest of Cola, wine, vinegar, soy and Worchester sauce. Pour around the meat onto vegetables.

5. Sprinkle the meat with the allspice and a pinch of salt.

6. Place bay leaves close around leg. Gently push in some whole cloves into the meat.

7. Cover the meat with tin foil and place in a preheated oven of 180 degrees Celsius.

8. Check occasionally and bake until meat is cooked through.

Morning of feast

1. Remove tin foil and brush meat with honey.

2. Bake in oven at 100 degrees Celsius uncovered for 1hour and 30 minutes.

3. Take out, brush a little more honey on top with a light sprinkle of all spice.

4. Place in oven again for only 30 mins; take out.

5. Remove Bay leaves and cloves.
6. Slice thinly and serve with English mustard (optional) and enjoy

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