3 Ingredient 7 Hour Lamb Roast
This 3 Ingredient 7 Hour Lamb Roast is the most hands off slow cooker recipe that rewards you with the most tender meat and little no effort. The slow cooker does all the work for you!
Ingredients
- 2 Kg Lamb leg
- 1 tablespoon Salt and pepper
- 1 Tbsps. Olive oil
- 2 Cups Water
Instructions
- Prep the lamb: Remove the lamb from the fridge at least an hour or two before cooking. Don't forget to remove any packaging, it should be free of packaging when reaching room temp.
- Preheat the slow cooker: Pour a cup of water into the slow cooker and set it to HIGH to preheat while you do your prep.
- Dry the lamb: Pat the lamb dry using kitchen paper towels. Turn it over and dry all round before seasoning.
- Season + oil: Season generously with salt and pepper, drizzle the lamb with olive oil and gently pat/rub the seasoning and oil into the lamb.
- Cook the lamb: Toss the water out, add the required amount of water for this recipe, place the lamb into the slower cooker and reduce the setting to LOW and cook for 7 hours.
- Half hour before the time is up you can preheat the oven to 200C/400F and place the rack lower down in the oven. This browning / roasting the lamb step is completely optional since the lamb is ready to be served after slow cooking.
- Remove the lamb from the slower cooker and place it on an oven tray and roast for 15 minutes. Please check since ovens are different and take it out once its browned.
- Remove from oven or from the slow cooker (if not doing the oven step) rest the lamb on a platter, loosely covered with foil for 20 minutes.
- Serve with forks and gravy if using.
Notes
Giving the lamb time to rest before cooking is important for even cooking, although this statement is widely debatable since there are professional chefs who say it's not important. As I am not a chef, I will go with my instinct and it says 'time to rest before and after cooking ' The jury is still open on this :)
This is a slow cook, enjoy it.
A tip that I can share about the slow cooker is that I've been preheating it since I bought mine. I know, all the YouTube videos I've watched get straight on with the cooking, no one preheats. I figured that, because the slow cooker is 'slooowwww' I would preheat it while I did my prep.
Obviously with water inside, after all, you don't want it to maybe crack!
Anyway, I found that it heats up much quicker this way and then decided to Google am it using it correctly since I never seen anyone doing it and guess what I found?
Preheating the slow cooker is confirmed as correct and this is according to The Kitchn.
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