Saddle lamb - a dish that will take its rightful place on the table. To prepare it does not require much time and effort. The key to success is selected products that must be fresh.
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The main ingredient of the dish is meat. For preparation, the dorsal part of the carcass with stones is perfect. Pay attention to the color of fat - it should be light. It is better to buy lamb meat, as it turns out more tender and soft, but there is no specific smell.
Before cooking, it is important to remove all the films from the meat, as well as cut off excess fat. If you leave the connective tissue, the finished dish can turn out to be tough and unpresentable. It does not hurt to rinse the meat under running water, and then allow moisture to drain.
To prepare the dish you will need:
- 2 kg of meat;
- 100 g of fat;
- 1-2 bulbs;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 2 tbsp olive oil;
- 100 ml of wine vinegar;
- 0.5 tsp black or white ground pepper;
- 1 tbsp juniper berries.
Marinate the prepared meat. To do this, mix spices, berries, minced garlic, vinegar and salt. Cut the onion into rings or half rings. Place the lamb's saddle in a deep container, shift onions and fill with marinade, leave for a day. 3 Immediately before cooking, cut lard into small sized blocks. Make punctures in the meat and stuff. If you do not like fatty foods, you can not do this.
Fix the lamb saddle on a spit and bake on the grill at a temperature of 180 degrees 45 minutes. Do not forget from time to time to control the readiness of the dish, as the set temperature on the oven does not always correspond to reality.
You can prepare a lamb saddle according to another recipe. It is necessary to prepare meat as in the first case, but the set of additional products and spices is somewhat different.
You will need:
- 1 kg of meat;
- 3 branches of rosemary;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 50 ml of olive oil;
- 80 ml of wine vinegar;
- salt; - black pepper peas;
- 100 ml of red wine;
- 1 tbsp finished mustard.
Rinse and chop the rosemary. Pass the garlic through a press or grate on a fine grater. Put a few peppercorns in a mortar and grind thoroughly with a pestle. Of course, you can use ground, but crushed immediately before cooking will give more flavor.
Combine rosemary, pepper, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, salt, wine, mustard. Pour the meat with the resulting marinade and leave for at least 4 hours, and preferably for a day. After placing in a pan or on a baking sheet, bake in the oven for about 45 minutes. Periodically take out the dish and pour the marinade that remains.
Serve with any garnish. Boiled rice or any vegetable salad is ideal. You can sprinkle an already prepared dish with chopped herbs or pour over meat sauce.
Not all housewives get a lamb saddle in the oven. As a rule, the problem lies not in the ability to cook, but in the meat itself. Do not buy it in the market. If you want to surprise your guests, buy a lamb saddle at trusted stores.
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