Ingredients

• 2 kg - lamb leg
• 4 - garlic cloves
• 1 kg - potatoes, sliced
• 1 - onion, sliced
• 1 - bay leaf
• 2 sprigs - thyme
• 300 ml - vegetable or chicken stock
• 40 g - butter
• olive oil for greasing, as required
• black pepper, ground as required
• salt as required

How to Make Lamb Boulanger

• Cut small incisions in the mutton and insert thinly sliced pieces of garlic into the incisions.
• Pre-heat the oven and grease a baking dish with 15 g butter.
• Crush remaining garlic, arrange the potatoes, onions, garlic, herbs, salt and pepper in the buttered dish.
• Add enough stock to just cover, dot with remaining butter.
• Cover with foil and bake in the oven for 1 hour.
• Grease a heavy frying pan with a little oil.
• Add the mutton and cook quickly until browned all over.
• Put the lamb on top of the potatoes and cover with foil and bake for 1.5 hours.
• Remove the foil and bake open for 15 minutes, so that it browns well.
• Slice the mutton, garnish with parsley leaves and serve hot with potatoes.