Slow-cooked Greek Easter lamb with lemons, olives & bay recipe | Good Food

Slow-cooked Greek Easter lamb with lemons, olives & bay recipe | Good Food

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This authentic dish of meltingly tender leg of lamb is roasted with garlic, lemon and potatoes for an irresistible Sunday lunch centrepiece

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Ingredients

  • 1 garlic bulb separated into cloves, half peeled and sliced, half unpeeled
  • 8-10 fresh bay leaves
  • 3 lemons cut into quarters lengthways
  • 2 ½kg leg of lamb
  • 50ml Greek extra virgin olive oil plus 4 tbsp for the potatoes
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1kg Cypriot potatoes peeled and quartered lengthways (if you can’t find these, any large, waxy variety is fine – try Desirée)
  • 140g Greek Kalkidis olives (or other large pitted green olives)
  • 125ml red or dry white wine

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