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Roast Leg of Hogget

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Topic: Roast Leg of Hogget
Posted By: Effigy
Subject: Roast Leg of Hogget
Date Posted: 09 December 2013 at 19:41
This could not be simpler or more succulent.
At this time of year cold cuts are always useful and a leg is a meaty joint that will provide a family dinner, cold meat for lunches and a tasty shepherds pie for the freezer.

You will need:
a Leg of Hogget
Sea Salt
Black Pepper
4 - 6 cloves of garlic
Two big sprigs of rosemary
500ml water
Assorted vegetables for roasting - Potatoes, Carrots, Kumara*, Parsnips, Beetroots and/or Pumpkin, Yams etc cut into similar sized pieces, not too small.
1Tbsp Beurre Manie**
A little vegetable stock 

A roasting pan big enough for the leg and the roast vegetables.

Method
  1. Weigh the meat to calculate cooking time
  2. Score the skin of the leg in a criss cross diamond patter about 1" apart and place in the roasting pan.
  3. Crush the garlic with a large flat knife and spread onto the skin
  4. Sprinkle with plenty of coarse sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
  5. Place the rosemary on top 
  6. Pour the water into the pan 
  7. Cover with foil and seal tightly 
  8. Roast at 160°C for 25 minutes per kilo, minus 30 minutes. (If you like slightly less done - 20 min per kilo, but you won't get the lovely falling apart tender that the extra time gives). An average leg is 3 to 31/2 hours.
  9. When the time is up remove the pan from the oven. 
  10. Increase the oven to 200°C.
  11. Uncover the meat and drain off the fat (don't throw it away!), then pour the juices into a small saucepan. 
  12. Put about 2 Tbsp of the reserved drippings back into the pan for your roast vegetables. Don't throw the rest away - you can use it for delicious crisp roast potatoes on another occasion.
  13. Now put the meat and prepared Potatoes, Carrots, Kumara, Parsnips, Beetroots and/or Pumpkin back into the roasting pan. 
  14. Put back in the oven for 30 minutes
  15. Remove the meat to a carving platter and cover tightly with foil to rest.  
  16. Allow the vegetables a further 30 minutes or until done.
  17. Make gravy from the reserved juices - I make a buerre manie and whisk that in whilst gently heating, I then dilute to the desired consistency with a little vegetable stock. .
and here is the dinner you would get at my house this evening...

*Kumara is NZ sweet potato; any sweet potato would substitute

**Beurre manié (French "kneaded butter") is a dough, consisting of equal parts of soft butter and flour, used to thicken soups and sauces. By kneading the flour and butter together, the flour particles are coated in butter. When the beurre manié is whisked into a hot or warm liquid, the butter melts, releasing the flour particles without creating lumps.


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Replies:
Posted By: africanmeat
Date Posted: 09 December 2013 at 23:21
Eeeigy 
this is always a wining dish ,
great show .
thanks.


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Ahron

Posted By: Effigy
Date Posted: 09 December 2013 at 23:58
Thanks Ahron, I am adding pictures as it cooks....

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Resident Peasant

Posted By: AK1
Date Posted: 10 December 2013 at 00:26
OK, I gotta ask. What is a Hogget?

Posted By: Effigy
Date Posted: 10 December 2013 at 00:32
Hogget — a sheep of either sex having no more than two permanent incisors in wear.
That is the strict farming distinction... this next one was written by a fellow cook...

Hogget is a farming term that refers to young sheep and may refer to:
A live domestic sheep between one and two years of age, in casual speech...the meat from such an animal.

Hogget meat tends to be of a darker red color than meat from a younger lamb and to have a slightly richer flavor.


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Posted By: Hoser
Date Posted: 10 December 2013 at 02:10
Ohhhhh boy oh boy oh boy do I wish I was at your house tonight.!

Magnificent meal there Anne.Clap


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Go ahead...play with your food!

Posted By: TasunkaWitko
Date Posted: 10 December 2013 at 23:38
outstanding, anne! i'd be happy to sit down at a table where that is served any time! excellent work and beautiful photos - and i learned a few new things today as well, so thank you for the edification!

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Posted By: Margi Cintrano
Date Posted: 23 December 2013 at 01:15
Anne,

Compliments to the Chef dear. Lovely traditional roast and pretty presentation.

Happy Holidays,
Margaux.

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Volamos a Mediterraneo, un paraiso que conquista su gente u su cocina.


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